Kakigori Summer - Itami, Emily
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Rei, Kiki and Ai are three sisters whose lives have taken them on very different paths. They have lost both parents, one way or another, and each found their own ways of carrying on. Eldest daughter Rei is spiky and sensible, distracting herself with an all-consuming job at a financial corporation in London. Big-hearted Kiki is a single mother in Tokyo, juggling the demands of her young son and the cantankerous elderly residents of the care home she works in. And Ai, the free-spirited youngest, is a Japanese pop idol who has found fame and fortune but lost herself along the way. When Ai is…mehr

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Rei, Kiki and Ai are three sisters whose lives have taken them on very different paths. They have lost both parents, one way or another, and each found their own ways of carrying on. Eldest daughter Rei is spiky and sensible, distracting herself with an all-consuming job at a financial corporation in London. Big-hearted Kiki is a single mother in Tokyo, juggling the demands of her young son and the cantankerous elderly residents of the care home she works in. And Ai, the free-spirited youngest, is a Japanese pop idol who has found fame and fortune but lost herself along the way. When Ai is embroiled in a scandal and suddenly thrust into the spotlight, Rei must pick up the pieces of her family once more. Reunited for the summer in their childhood home on the Japanese coast, the sisters are forced to confront the legacy of their mother's death, the stories they have told themselves ever since and the question of how they want to live. A transporting, funny and moving novel about love and loss, this new novel from the author of Fault Lines confirms Emily Itami as a talent to watch.
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Autorenporträt
Emily Itami grew up in Tokyo before moving to London, where she now lives with her young family. She has been published widely as a freelance journalist and travel writer. Her first novel, Fault Lines, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award.
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"What is the cost of a mother's desire?...Emily Itami explores this question with wit and poignancy." - New York Times Book Review on Fault Lines

"What's intriguing about Fault Lines is its shrewd commentary on Japan's societal expectations of women as either sex objects or dutiful mothers. As Mizuki eventually learns, it's in striking a workable balance between these two dichotomies-her past life versus her present one, titillating desire versus familial obligations, who she wants to be versus who society dictates she should be-that the real work of living begins." - Washington Post

"A complicated romance with immense empathy for all its characters and their flaws [and] a wonderfully nuanced take on Tokyo life." - Popsugar on Fault Lines

"Sexy, laugh-out-loud funny, and full of prose as sumptuous as the meals described, Fault Lines is a must read for anyone fond of Sally Rooney's expert characterization and Haruki Murakami's immersive world-building." - Bon Appétit

"Fault Lines manages to be clever, wise, and heartbreaking all at once-the book is the perfect marriage of Sally Rooney and early Murakami, with a unique insight into marriage, motherhood, and warring cultural expectations that is all Emily Itami's own. Absolutely brilliant." - Kathy Wang, author of Impostor Syndrome

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