Name: Ms ice Sandwich
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Author: Kawakami, Mieko ; Kawai, Louise Heal
ISBN: 9781782276722

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mieko Kawakami

Translated by

Louise Heal Kawai

Publisher

Pushkin Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.3x12.7x0.8 cm

Weight

0.10 kg.

ISBN13

9781782276722

Synopsis "Ms ice Sandwich"

A witty, moving story of adolescent love and loss from the acclaimed, prize-winning author of Breasts and Eggs "Haruki Murakami listed Kawakami as his favourite young writer, so you're going to want to snatch up this lovely coming-of-age story about a boy who becomes obsessed with a woman who sells sandwiches" -- Bustle In her English language debut, "ceaselessly growing and evolving"novelist Mieko Kawakami renders an adolsecent voice with laser precision (Haruki Murakami). "Ms Ice Sandwich" is a name I made up, of course. I thought of it the minute I first saw her. Ms Ice Sandwich's eyelids are always painted with a thick layer of a kind of electric blue, exactly the same colour as those hard ice lollies that have been sitting in our freezer since last summer. A young boy returns obsessively to a supermarket sandwich counter, entranced by the beauty of the woman who works there. Her aloof demeanour and electric blue eyelids make him feel the most intense joy he's ever known. He calls her Ms Ice Sandwich, and he wants nothing more than to spend his days watching her coolly slip sandwiches into bags. But the complexities of life keep getting in the way - his beloved grandmother's illness is only getting worse, and his mother seems to be totally ignoring it. There's also his faltering friendship with his classmate Tutti. As she invites him to join her in thrilling games and fantasy, the boy begins to enter a whole new world of imagination. Wry, intimate and wonderfully skewed, Ms Ice Sandwich is a poignant depiction of the naivety and wisdom of youth, just as it is passing.

Mieko Kawakami

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(Osaka, Kawakami, 1976) is the author of the international best-seller Breasts and Eggs, chosen as one of the books of the year in The New York Times and one of the top 10 books of 2020 in TIME. She made her literary debut as a poet in 2006 and published her first novel, My Ego, My Teeth, and the World, in 2007. Her literature has been praised for the poetic tone with which she addresses issues such as the female body, ethical questions, and the dilemmas of modern society. Her works have been translated into various languages and she has received numerous literary awards in Japan, such as the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, and the Murasaki Shikibu Prize. She lives in Tokyo, Japan.

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