num_pages: 224
description: From the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this funny heartwarming story about love life and human relationships that features a delightfully offbeat cast of characters.Objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers that handle them. But like those same customers and staff they hold many secrets. If examined carefully they show the signs of innumerable extravagancies of immeasurable pleasure and pain and of the deep mysteries of the human heart.Hitomi the inexperienced young woman who works the register at Mr. Nakano's thrift shop has fallen for her coworker the oddly reserved Takeo. Unsure of how to attract his attention she seeks advice from her employer's sister Masayo whose sentimental entanglements make her a somewhat unconventional guide. But thanks in part to Masayo Hitomi will come to realize that love desire and intimacy require acceptance not only of idiosyncrasies but also of the delicate waltz between open and hidden secrets.Animating each delicately rendered chapter in Kawakami's playful novel is Mr. Nakano himself an original entertaining and enigmatic creation whose compulsive mannerisms secretive love life and impulsive behavior defy all expectations.
language: English
title: The Nakano Thrift Shop
publisher: Europa Editions