The very fact of who you are will shape your experience of it: the path you walk, the people you meet, the hall of memories you create in your dreams. What I can tell you is that no two people ever see it in quite the same way, although that’s probably true of all places. More than a few document its temples and gardens, and even more dispense travel recommendations backed by authoritative comments from local residents. Some offer wisdom and insight into its culture others philosophise over its art. Many books have been written about Kyoto over the years.
Relationships are risks.Ĭapturing a city in words is impossible, but everyone tries. The right of Florentyna Leow to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.Ī CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library. The Bee Is Not Afraid of Me: A Book of Insect Poems, edited by Fran Long and Isabel Galleymore img1.jpgįirst published in the UK in 2023 by The Emma Press Ltd.
My Sneezes Are Perfect, by Rakhshan Rizwan with Yusuf Samee, illustrated by Benjamin Phillips Oskar and the Things, by Andrus Kivirähk, illustrated by Anne Pikkov, translated from Estonian by Adam CullenĬloud Soup, by Kate Wakeling, illustrated by Elīna Brasliņa
We Are A Circus, by Nasta, illustrated by Rosie Fencott The Fabulanarchist Luxury Uprising, by Jack Houston One day at the Taiwan Land Bank Dinosaur Museum, by Elīna Eihmane Pilgrim, by Lisabelle Tay, illustrated by Reena Makwana The Fox's Wedding, by Rebecca Hurst, illustrated by Reena Makwana The Strange Egg, by Kirstie Millar, illustrated by Hannah Mumby Tiny Moons: A year of eating in Shanghai, by Nina Mingya Powles How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart is a collection about the ways in which heartbreak can fill a place and make it impossible to stay. Their relationship burns bright, but seasons change, the persimmon tree out back loses its fruit, and things grow strange between the two women. Their little kitchen, the epicenter of their shared life, overlooks a community garden dominated by a fruitful persimmon tree. Meanwhile, her relationship with her new companion develops an intensity as they live and work together. Amidst the busy tourist traps and overrun temples, Florentyna develops her own personal map of the city: a favourite smoky jazz kissa a top-shelf katsuobushi loving cat an elderly lady named Yamaguchi-san, who shares her sweets and gives Florentyna a Japanese name.
20-something and uncertain about her future, Florentyna Leow is exhilarated when an old acquaintance offers her an opportunity for work and cohabitation in a little house in the hills of Kyoto.įlorentyna begins a new job as a tour guide, taking tourists on elaborate and expensive trips around Kyoto’s cultural hotspots.
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