How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart - The Emma Press Prose Pamphlets
How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart - The Emma Press Prose Pamphlets
paperback
Published:
23 February, 2023
Description
20-something and uncertain about her future, Florentyna Leow is exhilarated when an old acquaintance offers her an opportunity for work and cohabitation in a little house in the hills of Kyoto.
Florentyna begins a new job as a tour guide, taking tourists on elaborate and expensive trips around Kyoto’s cultural hotspots. Amidst the busy tourist traps and overrun temples, Florentyna develops her own personal map of the city: a favourite smoky jazz kissa; a top-shelf katsuobushi loving cat; an elderly lady named Yamaguchi-san, who shares her sweets and gives Florentyna a Japanese name.
Meanwhile, her relationship with her new companion develops an intensity as they live and work together. Their little kitchen, the epicenter of their shared life, overlooks a community garden dominated by a fruitful persimmon tree. Their relationship burns bright, but seasons change, the persimmon tree out back loses its fruit, and things grow strange between the two women.
How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart is a collection about the ways in which heartbreak can fill a place and make it impossible to stay.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781915628008 |
| ISBN10 | 1915628008 |
| Number Of Pages | 152 |
| Item Weight | 151 g |
| Product Dimensions | 123 x 184 x 8 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | The Emma Press |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
“A much needed voice to the chorus of writing on Japan… an expressive unpacking of one broken heart, universal to any time or place.”
-- Kris Kosaka * The Japan Times *‘This is a book with the power to help one reconnect to one’s own life and story with increased tenderness and compassion.’
-- Eric Margolis * Metropolis Japan *Author's Bio
Florentyna Leow is a writer and translator. Born in Malaysia, she lived in London and Kyoto before moving to Tokyo. Really, though, she lives on the internet. Her work focuses on food and craft, with an emphasis on under-reported stories from rural Japan, like English Toast (neither English nor toast), a shrine dedicated to ice, and Japan's rarest citrus. She cannot go five minutes without thinking about food. How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart is her first book. She can be found @furochan_eats on Instagram and Twitter, or at www.florentynaleow.com Elīna Brasliņa studied Printmaking and Graphic Arts at the Art Academy of Latvia. Since 2014 she has illustrated more than twenty titles, including Moon Juice by Kate Wakeling, which was her international debut. She has been nominated for numerous awards in Latvia, and has won the Zelta Ābele (Golden Apple Tree) National Prize for Book Art twice. She was awarded the International Jānis Baltvilks Prize in 2017. You can visit Elīna’s website and see more of her illustrations here: www.elinabraslina.com