by Hiromi Kawakami · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420423883
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«El cielo es azul, la tierra blanca» is the love novel by Hiromi Kawakami, published by Alfaguara in paperback (216 pages, in Spanish).
Tsukiko, a lonely thirty-eight-year-old office worker, runs into her former teacher in a bar, a man she always called Sensei. He, thirty years older and retired, becomes her companion for dinners and conversations. As the seasons change, their relationship turns into a love affair marked by tenderness and shared solitude.
Novel winner of the Tanizaki Prize. Translation by Marina Bornas Montaña. Published in the Literaturas collection by Alfaguara.
For readers of contemporary Japanese fiction and intimate love stories told with poetic sensitivity.
Hiromi Kawakami is a Japanese writer, known for her off-beat fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. She has won numerous Japanese literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature. Her work has been adapted for film and has been translated into more than 15 languages.
