Asako Yuzuki (柚木 麻子, Yuzuki Asako) is a Japanese writer. She won the All Yomimono Prize for New Writers and the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize. Asako has been nominated multiple times for the Naoki Prize, and her novels have been adapted for television, radio, and film.
This book contents four short stories which are intertwined with each other, the main characters are young official ladies (OL) or the middle aged ones and the stories usually focus on how they deal with their problems and their daily affairs. All of the stories are interesting to read, and the details are good too.
There's a direct link from our stomach to our heart.
The English translation of this book is "Lunch No Akko-chan." A collection of four inter-related short stories written by the award-winning Japanese author Asako Yuzuki. These stories took place in the white collar business district in Osako.
The book begins in a small book publishing company, where the senior editor Akko realized that one of her female subordinates, Sawada, was unhappily eating a homemade bento alone. Akko suggested to Sawada that since she missed home cooked food, she wanted to swap lunches with Sawada for a week. If Sawada packs her a traditional Japanese lunch daily, Akko would treat Sawada to her regular lunch spots for 5 days, all paid for. Instruction and direction will be given to her daily for where to go... Thus begins Sawada's adventure in food, as well as life.
The stories had been made into a TV J-drama series with the same name.
I was about 10 pages in when I realised I’d watched a screen adaptation before. My memory of it was vague. But reading the passage about the office worker running to a smoothie kart for lunch triggered it. Run for your greens!
3.5 ⭐️ it was a nice book to read after reading a heavy book. It was a great pick me up. Each story was cute and heartwarming. Great for reading slump.
Man they really need to translate the next two books! I love the first two stories... the last two weren't bad, but the people I came to view as "main characters" became mere cameos instead.