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PublisherEuropa Editions, Incorporated

ISBN-101609453999

ISBN-139781609453992

eBay Product ID (ePID)237564842

Product Key Features

Book TitleNakano Thrift Shop : a Novel

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Romance / Romantic Comedy, Humorous / General

Publication Year2017

GenreFiction

AuthorHiromi Kawakami

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight10.6 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2017-276738

ReviewsPraise for The Nakano Thrift Shop "A gentle, humorous novel." -- The Wall Street Journal "Kawakami lavishes attention on quotidian minutiae and exquisitely awkward pauses, ending scenes on maddeningly unresolved but vibrant images. [...] It feels a lot like daily life in Tokyo, but odder." --The New York Times "[Kawakami] knows she doesn't need fireworks to keep the reader entertained, and is pushing her exploration of form and style." --The Japan Times "A window into another world is opened by this pleasant but sprightly look at daily life in a small thrift shop in a Japanese city. Love and disappointment, professional rivalry, filial conflict and longings for another life illuminate these characters who became friends to the reader by the finish. Great summer read." --Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA) "Charming, quirky, and wise, this is a warmhearted character study of the undervalued, the obsolete, and the hidden gems among us all." --Monique Truong, author of Bitter in the Mouth "Subtle, graceful, wise and threaded on a quirky humour, this exploration of the connections and disconnections between people kept me smiling long after the last page." --Julia Rochester, author of The House at the End of the World "The Nakano Thrift Shop is really a love story, albeit a very offbeat one... A gentle book, full of charm [and] radiating leftfield charisma." -- Emerald Street "Hiromi Kawakami's charming novel illuminates moments of kindness, love and friendship that pop up like the unexpected treasures amid the shop's dusty collection of pretty mismatched bowls and plates, castoff eyeglasses, task lamps and old electric fans." --The Minneapolis Star Tribune ". . .[A] modern Japanese slice-of-life drama." -- Booklist "Readers will grow to care about these quirky characters [...] making "Nakano" an utterly charming little book." -- Philippine Daily Inquirer "A window into another world is opened by this pleasant but sprightly look at daily life in a small thrift shop in a Japanese city. Love and disappointment, professional rivalry, filial conflict and longings for another life illuminate these characters who become friends to the reader by the finish." --Eric Boss, Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association, Praise for The Nakano Thrift Shop "[The characters] are thoughtfully written--understated, quirky, flawed, and by the end of the novel you care about them so much. And it's also a little longer than [Kawakami's] other novels, so you can really sink into this endlessly charming book." -- Kirkus (Starred Review) "A gentle, humorous novel." -- The Wall Street Journal "Kawakami lavishes attention on quotidian minutiae and exquisitely awkward pauses, ending scenes on maddeningly unresolved but vibrant images. [...] It feels a lot like daily life in Tokyo, but odder." --The New York Times "The novel presents a fine-grained portrayal of its characters' lives [...] [Its] pleasures [...] revolve [...] around the granular details of the everyday." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "[Kawakami] knows she doesn't need fireworks to keep the reader entertained, and is pushing her exploration of form and style." --The Japan Times "A window into another world is opened by this pleasant but sprightly look at daily life in a small thrift shop in a Japanese city. Love and disappointment, professional rivalry, filial conflict and longings for another life illuminate these characters who became friends to the reader by the finish. Great summer read." --Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA) "Charming, quirky, and wise, this is a warmhearted character study of the undervalued, the obsolete, and the hidden gems among us all." --Monique Truong, author of Bitter in the Mouth "Subtle, graceful, wise and threaded on a quirky humour, this exploration of the connections and disconnections between people kept me smiling long after the last page." --Julia Rochester, author of The House at the End of the World "The Nakano Thrift Shop is really a love story, albeit a very offbeat one... A gentle book, full of charm [and] radiating leftfield charisma." -- Emerald Street "Hiromi Kawakami's charming novel illuminates moments of kindness, love and friendship that pop up like the unexpected treasures amid the shop's dusty collection of pretty mismatched bowls and plates, castoff eyeglasses, task lamps and old electric fans." --The Minneapolis Star Tribune ". . .[A] modern Japanese slice-of-life drama." -- Booklist "Readers will grow to care about these quirky characters [...] making "Nakano" an utterly charming little book." -- Philippine Daily Inquirer "A window into another world is opened by this pleasant but sprightly look at daily life in a small thrift shop in a Japanese city. Love and disappointment, professional rivalry, filial conflict and longings for another life illuminate these characters who become friends to the reader by the finish." --Eric Boss, Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association, Praise for The Nakano Thrift Shop "A gentle, humorous novel." -- The Wall Street Journal "[Kawakami] knows she doesn't need fireworks to keep the reader entertained, and is pushing her exploration of form and style." --The Japan Times "Charming, quirky, and wise, this is a warmhearted character study of the undervalued, the obsolete, and the hidden gems among us all." --Monique Truong, author of Bitter in the Mouth "Subtle, graceful, wise and threaded on a quirky humour, this exploration of the connections and disconnections between people kept me smiling long after the last page." --Julia Rochester, author of The House at the End of the World "The Nakano Thrift Shop is really a love story, albeit a very offbeat one... A gentle book, full of charm [and] radiating leftfield charisma." -- Emerald Street "Hiromi Kawakami's charming novel illuminates moments of kindness, love and friendship that pop up like the unexpected treasures amid the shop's dusty collection of pretty mismatched bowls and plates, castoff eyeglasses, task lamps and old electric fans." --The Minneapolis Star Tribune ". . .[A] modern Japanese slice-of-life drama." -- Booklist "Readers will grow to care about these quirky characters [...] making "Nakano" an utterly charming little book." -- Philippine Daily Inquirer, Praise for The Nakano Thrift Shop "Subtle, graceful, wise and threaded on a quirky humour, this exploration of the connections and disconnections between people kept me smiling long after the last page." --Julia Rochester, author of The House at the End of the World "The Nakano Thrift Shop is really a love story, albeit a very offbeat one... A gentle book, full of charm [and] radiating leftfield charisma." -- Emerald Street ". . .[A] modern Japanese slice-of-life drama." -- Booklist, Praise for The Nakano Thrift Shop "Subtle, graceful, wise and threaded on a quirky humour, this exploration of the connections and disconnections between people kept me smiling long after the last page." --Julia Rochester, author of The House at the End of the World "The Nakano Thrift Shop is really a love story, albeit a very offbeat one... A gentle book, full of charm [and] radiating leftfield charisma." -- Emerald Street, Praise for The Nakano Thrift Shop "A gentle, humorous novel." -- The Wall Street Journal "Charming, quirky, and wise, this is a warmhearted character study of the undervalued, the obsolete, and the hidden gems among us all." --Monique Truong, author of Bitter in the Mouth "Subtle, graceful, wise and threaded on a quirky humour, this exploration of the connections and disconnections between people kept me smiling long after the last page." --Julia Rochester, author of The House at the End of the World "The Nakano Thrift Shop is really a love story, albeit a very offbeat one... A gentle book, full of charm [and] radiating leftfield charisma." -- Emerald Street "Hiromi Kawakami's charming novel illuminates moments of kindness, love and friendship that pop up like the unexpected treasures amid the shop's dusty collection of pretty mismatched bowls and plates, castoff eyeglasses, task lamps and old electric fans." --The Minneapolis Star Tribune ". . .[A] modern Japanese slice-of-life drama." -- Booklist, Praise for The Nakano Thrift Shop "A gentle, humorous novel." -- The Wall Street Journal "Kawakami lavishes attention on quotidian minutiae and exquisitely awkward pauses, ending scenes on maddeningly unresolved but vibrant images. [...] It feels a lot like daily life in Tokyo, but odder." --The New York Times "The novel presents a fine-grained portrayal of its characters' lives [...] [Its] pleasures [...] revolve [...] around the granular details of the everyday." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "[Kawakami] knows she doesn't need fireworks to keep the reader entertained, and is pushing her exploration of form and style." --The Japan Times "Throughout The Nakano Thrift Shop , Kawakami expertly draws readers in, playing off our expectations, subverting them to unpack the complex, often messy, lives of her characters." -- Ploughshares "A window into another world is opened by this pleasant but sprightly look at daily life in a small thrift shop in a Japanese city. Love and disappointment, professional rivalry, filial conflict and longings for another life illuminate these characters who became friends to the reader by the finish. Great summer read." --Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA) "Charming, quirky, and wise, this is a warmhearted character study of the undervalued, the obsolete, and the hidden gems among us all." --Monique Truong, author of Bitter in the Mouth "Subtle, graceful, wise and threaded on a quirky humour, this exploration of the connections and disconnections between people kept me smiling long after the last page." --Julia Rochester, author of The House at the End of the World "The Nakano Thrift Shop is really a love story, albeit a very offbeat one... A gentle book, full of charm [and] radiating leftfield charisma." -- Emerald Street "Hiromi Kawakami's charming novel illuminates moments of kindness, love and friendship that pop up like the unexpected treasures amid the shop's dusty collection of pretty mismatched bowls and plates, castoff eyeglasses, task lamps and old electric fans." --The Minneapolis Star Tribune ". . .[A] modern Japanese slice-of-life drama." -- Booklist "Readers will grow to care about these quirky characters [...] making "Nakano" an utterly charming little book." -- Philippine Daily Inquirer "A window into another world is opened by this pleasant but sprightly look at daily life in a small thrift shop in a Japanese city. Love and disappointment, professional rivalry, filial conflict and longings for another life illuminate these characters who become friends to the reader by the finish." --Eric Boss, Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association

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SynopsisThis "gentle, humorous novel" follows a young Japanese woman as she yearns for the love of a reluctant coworker ( The Wall Street Journal ). The objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers who handle them. But like those staff and customers, they hold many secrets. If examined carefully, they show the signs of innumerable extravagances, of immeasurable pleasure and pain, and of the deep mysteries of the human heart.Hitomi, the inexperienced young woman who works the register, has fallen for her coworker, the oddly reserved Takeo. Unsure of how to attract his attention, she seeks advice from her employer's sister, Masayo, whose sentimental entanglements make her a somewhat unconventional guide. But thanks in part to Masayo, Hitomi will come to realize that love, desire, and intimacy require acceptance not only of idiosyncrasies but also of the delicate waltz between open and hidden secrets, in this novel from the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo that "captures an untranslatable Japanese mood" ( The New York Times ). "Uses a series of vignettes to chronicle a girl's time working at Mr. Nakano's secondhand store in Tokyo . . . Pleasant, leisurely prose."-- Publishers Weekly "Hiromi Kawakami's charming novel illuminates moments of kindness, love and friendship that pop up like the unexpected treasures amid the shop's dusty collection of pretty mismatched bowls and plates, castoff eyeglasses, task lamps and old electric fans."-- Minneapolis Star-Tribune, From the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this funny, heartwarming story about love, life, and human relationships that features a delightfully offbeat cast of characters. Objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers that handle them. But like those same customers and staff, they hold many secrets. If examined carefully, they show the signs of innumerable extravagancies, of immeasurable pleasure and pain, and of the deep mysteries of the human heart. Hitomi, the inexperienced young woman who works the register at Mr. Nakano's thrift shop, has fallen for her coworker, the oddly reserved Takeo. Unsure of how to attract his attention, she seeks advice from her employer's sister, Masayo, whose sentimental entanglements make her a somewhat unconventional guide. But thanks in part to Masayo, Hitomi will come to realize that love, desire, and intimacy require acceptance not only of idiosyncrasies but also of the delicate waltz between open and hidden secrets. Animating each delicately rendered chapter in Kawakami's playful novel is Mr. Nakano himself, an original, entertaining, and enigmatic creation whose compulsive mannerisms, secretive love life, and impulsive behavior defy all expectations.

LC Classification NumberPL855.A859F8713 2017