Ms Ice Sandwich
By: Mieko Kawakami ; translated by Louise Heal Kawai
Contributors: Kawai, Louise Heal, translator
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9781782273301
Subjects: Supermarkets; Employees; Schoolboys; Families; Fiction
Work titles: Misu Aisu Sandoicchi
Description: A boy goes to the supermarket almost every day, just so he can look at the face of the woman who sells sandwiches. She is beautiful to him, and he calls her "Ms Ice Sandwich", and endlessly draws her portrait. When the boy's friend hears about this hesitant adoration, suddenly everything changes. His visits to Ms Ice Sandwich stop, and with them the last hopes of his childhood.
Notes: Translated into English from the original Japanese.