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Michiko Aoyama

Biography

Michiko Aoyama

Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi prefecture. After graduating from university, she worked for two years as a reporter for a Japanese newspaper in Sydney, then as a magazine editor at a publishing house before turning to full time writing. Her work has won the 1st Miyazakimoto Prize, the 13th Tenryu Literary Prize, and has been a runner up of the 2021 Japan Booksellers Awards. She currently lives in Yokohama.

Michiko Aoyama

Books by Michiko Aoyama

written by Michiko Aoyama, translated by E. Madison Shimoda - Fiction

All throughout the week, customers flock to the Marble Café that’s tucked away behind the trees --- except when it’s closed on Mondays, when the Matcha Café opens in its place, offering its clientele a warm cup of matcha and restoration to start the busy week ahead. On this one day of the week, people from all walks of life frequent this cozy haven and experience the joys of human connection. Among them are a singer who has just broken up with his lover, an unsociable young owner of a tea wholesaler, a husband who has made his wife angry, a designer and owner of a lingerie shop, and a Kamishibai artist who doesn't get along with his grandmother.