Миэко Каваками - циклы книг | Бумажные издания

In Heaven, a fourteen-year old boy is tormented for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, he chooses to suffer in silence. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate, Kojima, who experiences similar treatment at the hands of her bullies. Providing each other with immeasurable consolation at a time in their lives when they need it most, the two young friends grow closer than ever. But what, ultimately, is the nature of a friendship when your shared bond is terror? Unflinching yet tender, sharply observed, intimate and multi-layered, this simple yet profound novel stands as yet another dazzling…

Нацуко Нацумэ ждет в гости сестру и племянницу. Она давно не видела родных, но их встреча пройдет совсем не так, как надеялась Нацуко. Ее сестра измучена тяжелой работой в баре и ссорами с дочерью. В Токио она приехала для того, чтобы изменить свою жизнь. И начать она планирует с внешности. Племянница Нацуко беспокоится о своей матери и надеется удержать ее от опрометчивого шага. А еще молчаливая девочка-подросток не хочет взрослеть и боится изменений, которые происходят с ее телом. Сама Нацуко приехала в столицу десять лет назад. Она хотела стать писателем, но до сих пор так и не закончила книгу. Трем женщинам кажется, что мир…

Shy, lonely and introverted Fuyuko lives alone and fills her days with her job as a freelance proofreader. About to turn thirty-five, she cannot imagine ever having any emotional or successful relationship in her life as it currently stands. She is regularly haunted by encounters of the past. But Fuyuko loves the light and goes out on the night of her birthday, Christmas Eve, to count the lights. Her only friend, Hijiri, offers some light in her life, but it is a chance encounter with another man, Mr. Mitsutsuka, a physics teacher, who offers her access from another dimension to light. Pulsing, poetic, modern and shocking, All The…

A boy is obsessed with a woman who sells sandwiches. He goes to the supermarket almost every day, just so he can look at her face. She is beautiful to him, and he calls her "Ms Ice Sandwich", and endlessly draws her portrait.

But the boy's friend hears about this hesitant adoration, and suddenly everything changes. His visits to Ms Ice Sandwich stop, and with them the last hopes of his childhood.

A moving and surprisingly funny tale of growing up and learning how to lose, Ms Ice Sandwich is Mieko Kawakami at her very best.