Mieko Kawakami is a multi-award-winning Japanese author of poetry and fiction. She was born in Osaka prefecture in 1976 and started her career as a singer and songwriter. Kawakami published her debut novella My Ego, My Teeth, and the World in 2007 and has since published several highly acclaimed books, earning her the Tsubouchi Shoyo Prize for Young Emerging Writers, the Murasaki Shikibu Prize and the prestigious Akutagawa prize for Breasts and Eggs. Her work has been translated into nine languages.
Thoroughly enjoyable and desirable... beautifully told... Gentle,
funny, moving and elegantly translated by Louise Heal Kawai, it is
a rare treat
*Daily Express*
Among many other awards, Haruki Murakami listed Mieko Kawakami as
his favourite young writer, so you're obviously going to want to
snatch up Ms Ice Sandwich, her first book translated into English.
This is a lovely coming-of-age story about a boy who becomes
obsessed with a woman who sells sandwiches
*Bustle*
Easily digestible... a book that ultimately lives longer in the
memory than the hour or so it takes to read
*Financial Times*
Mieko Kawakami is always ceaselessly growing and evolving
Whimsical... Described as Haruki Murakami's "favorite young
novelist," Kawakami is destined to charm Anglophone audiences as
well
*Library Journal*
In Louise Heal Kawai's translation the novella is a wonderful
example of the power of narrative voice
*Japan Times*
The narrator's perspective is so singular and well-crafted that Ms
Ice Sandwich's message about the ephemerality of human connection
is never in any danger of becoming trite and sentimental
*Contemporary Japanese Literature*
A refreshing tale of understanding and acceptance... validates the
talent of the author and makes it a good introduction to Mieko
Kawakami's universe
*The Japan Society Journal*
A warm, heart-melting story... a treat
*The Straits Times*
A delightful distraction, and an appetiser for her work
*The Irish Times*
A deftly written, unusual tale... never sentimental... a thought
provoking and deeply satisfying read
*Never Imitate (blog)*
A touching novella... Ms Ice Sandwich interrogates what it means to
love and lose
*Culture Trip*
A funny, touching story
*A Life in Books (blog)*
Reading this quirky coming of age novella was one of the best hours
I've spent in sometime
*The Word's Shortlist (blog)*
Delightful... Kawakami's dialogue, fluidly rendered into English by
Louise Heal Kawai, captures beautifully and with great humor the
eager dynamism of a child's mind
*World Literature Today*
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