Ms Ice Sandwich: Mieko Kawakami (Japanese Novellas)

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Her translation remains faithful to the original version, retaining the sensibility and sensitivity of the main character’s personal journey and presenting it in an easy-to-read format that English readers should no doubt massively appreciate.

A brilliant work of literature written in the perspective of a child – experiencing and expressing the earliest feelings of non-familial love, attraction and desire (although one can argue that it has some sexual undertones, I personally couldn’t see it that way). The narrator is watching his old life mold itself into a new life and feels the lack of stability in the metamorphosis.Butt-ugly females like you, you think you’re better than anybody else with your facial reconstruction crap. Personally, I'd prefer this story to be a bit longer to fully get into Author's writing and mood of it all but overall it was quite enjoyable and close to cute, I guess, but not in a bad way. For starters, he lives with his Grandma who was once a large part of his life but now is squeezing out the last ounces of life mostly asleep in her chair.

And when that happens, I'm going to tell myself I can't give in or freeze up and get discouraged and do nothing. His friendship with Tutti made for some very funny and endearing scenes, their film session in particular (that bit with Tutti replicating a certain sequence was a real gem). As someone with more guy pals than gal pals, I always appreciate novels with stories without a ‘forced’ romantic subplot between the main characters of different gender/sex.

Uh-oh, I think, as in a flash the man comes storming back to the glass case, the manager chasing after him. A short story about a Japanese boy who has an infatuation with the sandwich lady at the local supermarket. First friendship, first love, probably not the first loss and all in the same year - that's a lot for 4th grader to get through, but he manages it, with a little help of blue crayons and egg sandwiches. Wanting to do something for them, wanting to make them happy - things such as that aren't the essence of falling in love, I feel.