As men grow up and change, contents of love stories also change. Loves with fast and rapid developments, teenagers tend to be in, become farer and farer as men get older and older. Love affairs for adults are not easily realized, and do not rapidly break down. It calmly colors the world of a couple.
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(The Teacher's Briefcase) |
It is a love story between woman about her forty and a male teacher in his seventies, which always has his black briefcase. The teacher had taught her Japanese in her high school days. Do not jump to concluding it is just a love affair between a teacher and his ex-student. The story is in very purity and of refined sentiment. Not especially erotic or featuring immorality. The love can be described that love by pure culture is written.
The author is Kawakami Hiromi, well-known for her offbeat and graphic fictional world. Then, it might be unusual in her stories.
Some tender feeling which sometimes appears on mind in your loving. We wish you read The Teacher’s Briefcase, since you must taste such a tasteful feeling in reading.