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Published in Japan in 2013 to great acclaim, each chapter of this outstanding novel (Kashiwai's first to be translated into English) begins with a different character—a policeman, a politician, a piano teacher, an entrepreneur, a housewife, and a restauranteur's ex-wife—wandering the side streets of Kyoto to find the mysterious and hidden Kawogawa restaurant, which doubles as an agency for "food dete...Log In or Sign Up to Read More