The Briefcase

Tsukiko, thirty–eight, works in an workplace and lives alone. One evening, she occurs to fulfill one in all her former highschool academics, “Sensei” in a neighborhood bar. Tsukiko had solely ever known as him “Sensei” (“Instructor”). He’s thirty years her senior, retired, and presumably a widower. Their relationship–traced by Kawakami’s mild hints on the altering seasons–develops from a perfunctory acknowledgment of one another as they eat and drink alone on the bar, to an fulfilling sense of companionship, and at last right into a deeply sentimental love affair.

As Tsukiko and Sensei develop to know and love each other, time’s passing comes throughout by the seasons and the meals and drinks they eat collectively. From heat sake to chilled beer, from the buds on the timber to the blooming of the cherry blossoms, the reader is enveloped by a eager sense of pathos and each characters’ eager loneliness.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007HOO5SK
Writer ‏ : ‎ Counterpoint
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Study extra
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 1, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File measurement ‏ : ‎ 919 KB
Display screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Phrase Smart ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print size ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1619020436
Web page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled