Sweet Bean Paste : The International Bestseller (Paperback)

from starrywisdom

I found the book both sweet and salty. I had previously seen the movie that the book was based on and so was happy to see it was translated and being published. The book was sad and sweet, but like a tasty afternoon treat not very filling. As it does flesh out the characters and social issues bet...

from amaryann21

Sentaro thinks he's a failure and by many standards, he may be. But Tokue finds his shop and teaches him how to make sweet bean paste, the deliciousness of which he has never tried before. But Tokue has her own secrets, and they come back to create trouble for her. The writing is no more than nec...

from TadAD

I found this a very interesting book as my perception of what type of story was being told morphed more than once as it progressed. When it opened, it seemed to be one of those stories where the superficial protagonist gets reluctantly mentored by someone who doesn't, at first glance, appear to b...

from PhoenixTerran

The 2015 film adaptation of Sukegawa's novel An has been released internationally under several different titles-Sweet Red Bean Paste, An, and Sweet Bean-and now the original work has been translated into English with yet another title variation, Sweet Bean Paste. I've not seen Naomi Kawase's fil...

from Beamis12

Most of the books I have read by Japanese authors seem to contain little emotion in their writing. It is the situations themselves that evoke feeling in the reader as the story is told in a very matter of fact fashion. We are introduced to a young man named Sentaro, he has spent time in prison, f...