ARGONAUT BOOKS

A boy is obsessed with a woman who sells sandwiches. He goes to the supermarket almost every day, just so he can look at her face. She is beautiful to him, and he calls her 'Ms Ice Sandwich', and endlessly draws her portrait. But the boy's friend hears about this hesitant adoration, and suddenly everything changes. His visits to Ms Ice Sandwich stop, and with them the last hopes of his childhood. Reviews One of John Freeman's 29 Writers to Watch"Whimsical… Described as Haruki Murakami's "favorite young novelist," Kawakami is destined to charm Anglophone audiences ...Read More