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A witty, moving story of adolescent love and loss from the acclaimed, prize-winning author of Breasts and Eggs

“HarukiMurakami listed Kawakami as his favourite young writer, so you’re goingto want to snatch up this lovely coming-of-age story about a boy whobecomes obsessed with a woman who sells sandwiches” — Bustle

In her English language debut, “ceaselessly growing and evolving”novelist Mieko Kawakami renders an adolsecent voice with laser precision (Haruki Murakami).

“MsIce Sandwich” is a name I made up, of course. I thought of it theminute I first saw her. Ms Ice Sandwich’s eyelids are always paintedwith a thick layer of a kind of electric blue, exactly the same colouras those hard ice lollies that have been sitting in our freezer sincelast summer.

A young boy returns obsessively to a supermarketsandwich counter, entranced by the beauty of the woman who works aloof demeanour and electric blue eyelids make him feel the mostintense joy he’s ever known. He calls her Ms Ice Sandwich, and he wantsnothing more than to spend his days watching her coolly slip sandwichesinto bags.

But the complexities of life keep getting in the way –his beloved grandmother’s illness is only getting worse, and his motherseems to be totally ignoring it. There’s also his faltering friendshipwith his classmate Tutti. As she invites him to join her in thrillinggames and fantasy, the boy begins to enter a whole new world ofimagination.

Wry, intimate and wonderfully skewed, Ms Ice Sandwich is a poignant depiction of the naivety and wisdom of youth, just as it is passing.