El cielo es azul, la tierra blanca : una historia de amor
(Book)

Translation of: Sensi no kaban.

La gran novela Japonesa ganadora del Premio Tanizaki, el más prestigioso de la Literatura Japonesa. --Amazon.

The great Japanese novel, winner of the Tanizaki Prize, the most prestigious of Japanese Literature.--Amazon.

"Tsukiko tiene 38 años y lleva una vida solitaria. Considera que no está dotada para el amor. Hasta que un día encuentra en una taberna a su viejo maestro de japonés. Entre ambos se establece un pacto tácito para compartir la soledad. Escogen la misma comida, buscan la compañía del otro y les cuesta separarse, aunque a veces intenten escapar el uno del otro: el maestro, en el recuerdo de la mujer que un día lo abandonó; Tsukiko, en un antiguo compañero de clase. Con una prosa sensual y despojada, Kawakami nos cuenta una historia de amor muy especial: el acercamiento sutil de dos amantes, con toda su íntima belleza, ternura y profundidad."--,from amazon.com

"Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, "Sensei" in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him "Sensei" ("Teacher"). He is thirty years her senior, retired, and presumably a widower. Their relationship, traced by Kawakami's gentle hints at the changing seasons, develops from a perfunctory acknowledgment of each other as they eat and drink alone at the bar, to an enjoyable sense of companionship, and finally into a deeply sentimental love affair. As Tsukiko and Sensei grow to know and love one another, time's passing comes across through the seasons and the food and beverages they consume together. From warm sake to chilled beer, from the buds on the trees to the blooming of the cherry blossoms, the reader is enveloped by a keen sense of pathos and both characters' keen loneliness."--Amazon.

Translated from the Japanese.

In Spanish.