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Sweet bean paste is an acquired taste, but the book is not. The book, Sweet Bean Paste is about three people who have been warped by life. An old lady, a young man, and a middle school girl find each other in a shop that makes and sells dorayaki. Dorayaki is something like a crepe filled with sweet bean paste.
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Into his life comes Tokue, an elderly woman with disfigured hands and a troubled past. Tokue makes the best sweet bean paste Sentaro has ever tasted. She begins to teach him her craft, but as their friendship flourishes, social pressures become impossible to escape and Tokue's dark secret is revealed, with devastating consequences.
Apr 14, 2018 · Apr 14, 2018. "Sweet Bean Paste" is a subtle, moving exploration of redemption in an unforgiving society. The story is told from the perspective of Sentaro, a man whose dreams of becoming a writer ...
Aug 31, 2020 · August 31, 2020. Created by ImportBot. Imported from Better World Books record . Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa, Alison Watts, 2017, Oneworld Publications edition, in English.
Tokue makes the best sweet bean paste Sentaro has ever tasted. She begins to teach him her craft, but as their friendship flourishes, social pressures become impossible to escape and Tokue’s dark secret is revealed, with devastating consequences. Sweet Bean Paste is a moving novel about the burden of the past and the redemptive power of ...
- Kindle Edition
- Durian Sukegawa
Jan 31, 2024 · Sweet Bean Paste tells the story of a struggling doroyaki shop and its reluctant confectioner Sentaro. He is bound to the store by an unpaid debt but also by a latent but pervasive feeling of shame and inadequacy that pushes him to drink heavily, withdraw from the world and live mindlessly.
Tokue makes the best sweet bean paste Sentaro has ever tasted. She begins to teach him her craft, but as their friendship flourishes, social pressures become impossible to escape and Tokue’s dark secret is revealed, with devastating consequences. Sweet Bean Paste is a moving novel about the burden of the past and the redemptive power of ...
- Kindle Edition
- Durian Sukegawa
