Ms Ice Sandwich: Mieko Kawakami (Japanese Novellas)

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Ms Ice Sandwich: Mieko Kawakami (Japanese Novellas)

Ms Ice Sandwich: Mieko Kawakami (Japanese Novellas)

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I don’t really know how to say it, but it’s like something’s wrong, all the time, and I can’t do anything to stop it. It’s always there. When I’m at home, when I’m at school.

But things change when he overhears some girls in his school calling his beloved Ms Ice Sandwich a “freak” and “some kind of monster”. There’s a mention of facial reconstruction, and some kind of mistake. He doesn’t understand, and he wants to defend her, but he doesn’t. And then, he stops going to the grocery store. Mum why, but now she’s busy playing with her mobile phone and just keeps nodding and saying yeah every so often. Well, I’m kind of getting used to her being like that these days, not paying attention to me, but the more we walk the more it bugs me, so I stop and say, If video games make you stupid, then what do mobile

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They aren’t even thinking. Not at all. They’re just doing what they’ve seen other people do, following blindly. They don’t know what it means, or why they’re doing it….they’re never stopped to think about other people’s pain. They’re just following along, doing what everyone else does.’ I liked the story, although as usual in stories where a young child is the focus, the author puts deeper philosophical thoughts in the boy’s mind than we think is realistic for that age. In Louise Heal Kawai's translation, the novella is a wonderful example of the power of narrative voice. An innocent stream-of-consciousness draws the reader into the boy's world and we learn far more about him from grammatical idiosyncrasies and looping vocabulary choices than from the morsels of detail we are fed. The story is narrated from the perspective of the boy, and one of my favourite things about this book is the ability of the author to reproduce the mind and thoughts of a gifted child. It reminded me of a mixture between The perks of being a wallflower and Convenience store woman. I also liked very much the character of Ms Ice Sandwhich herself. The protagonist, who's different from the other kids and subconsciously feels it, likes her because she is also different: she has an "unconventional beauty", and I found this very sweet and touching. So yes, Kawakami wrote a brutal morality tale that refrains from giving definitive answers, which connects her work to the attitude of Sayaka Murata. This has been my third Kawakami after Breasts and Eggs and Ms Ice Sandwich, both of which have been originally published after "Heaven", and all three books question the rules of society and what they do to people. I like how Kawakami does that in an unsettling way, and without being pedagogical. We have to find our individual answers ourselves.

walk faster? And of course she hasn’t taken her eyes off the screen for a second, madly pressing buttons, I do the same thing every day and that's how I end up spending the whole summer filling myself with Ms Ice Sandwich's eyes (and my stomach with her sandwiches).He struggles to communicate with others, even those he is closest to: Mum lives in a different world, Grandma can barely react, Tutti is like an alien creature, and he barely dares do anything other than ask for a sandwich from Ms Ice Sandwich, but he tries -- struggles, in a pro-active sense -- to understand each of these relationships, and his feelings about them.



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