Ms Ice Sandwich / Mieko Kawakami ; translated from japanese by Louise Heal Kawai.

By:

Kawakami, Mieko

Contributor(s):

Kawai, Louise, Heal

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Pushkin Press c2017Description: 92 pages : 20 cmISBN:

978-1-78227-672-2

Subject(s):

Schoolboys--Fiction. Families--Fiction. Supermarkets--Employees--Fiction. Japan--Fiction

LOC classification:

FIC .K393 2017

Summary: A boy goes to the supermarket almost every day, just so he can look at the face of the woman who sells sandwiches. She is beautiful to him, and he calls her "Ms Ice Sandwich", and endlessly draws her portrait. When the boy's friend hears about this hesitant adoration, suddenly everything changes. His visits to Ms Ice Sandwich stop, and with them the last hopes of his childhood.

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Translated into English from the original Japanese.

A boy goes to the supermarket almost every day, just so he can look at the face of the woman who sells sandwiches. She is beautiful to him, and he calls her "Ms Ice Sandwich", and endlessly draws her portrait. When the boy's friend hears about this hesitant adoration, suddenly everything changes. His visits to Ms Ice Sandwich stop, and with them the last hopes of his childhood.

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