Lunch Wine 2
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Summary
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy Japanese food-themed healing fiction and want relaxation through everyday food descriptions
- Readers interested in themes of middle-aged women living alone, divorce, and parent-child relationships
- People with irregular work schedules who habitually use a meal and a drink to regulate their emotions
- Readers who have read the first volume and want to continue following Inukomori Shoko's story
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer strong plot and fast-paced narrative; this book is slow-paced and driven by emotion
- Readers expecting a clear romance line or a happy ending; emotional handling is restrained and subtle
- Readers not interested in drinking and solitary living themes who only want light comedy
Reading tips
- Read the first volume before this one for more coherent character relationships and emotional shifts.
- Read one or two chapters at a time, savoring alongside the lunch wine scenes that appear in the book.
- Pay attention to how food corresponds to the characters' states of mind, and jot down passages that resonate.
- At subtle emotional moments, don't rush to judge the direction; just follow the narrative as it unfolds naturally.
About the publisher
People's Literature Publishing House publishes across classical literature, foreign literature, documentary writing and folk literature, with 492 titles in its catalogue. Representative books range from the Chinese classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms to Lao She's Teahouse and Longxu Ditch in the Selected Works of Lao She, as well as translated foreign literature such as Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Dante's Divine Comedy and Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, alongside documentary and fictional works including Primo Levi's If This Is a Man and João Guimarães Rosa's The Devil to Pay in the Backlands. Its authors include Chinese writers such as Lao She, translators such as Shen Emeri and Li Wenjun, and foreign authors such as James Wood. Overall, the house has a strong record in editing classic works and translating foreign literature, with a publishing character that bridges Chinese and foreign writing and values textual quality.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 第一餐酒 表参道 烤鸡肉盖饭
- 第二餐酒 秋叶原 炖肉盖饭
- 第三餐酒 日暮里 焗意面
- 第四餐酒 御殿场 汉堡肉
- 第五餐酒 池袋与筑地 寿司、生煎包、鸡汤面、奶昔
- 第六餐酒 神保町 三明治
- 第七餐酒 中目黑 烤肉
- 第八餐酒 中野 炸鸡块盖饭
- 第九餐酒 涩谷 猪骨拉面
- 第十餐酒 丰洲 寿司
FAQ
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Do the lunch wine descriptions take up much space in the book?
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About the author
Harada Hika is an author listed on this Chinese book site, though only limited public information about her is available. Five of her works are included here, generally categorized as foreign literature. Her representative titles include Why Are the Parcels Mom Sends Always So Tacky?, the three-volume Lunch Sake series, and A Life on Three Thousand Yen. Judging from these titles, her writing often draws on everyday life and family relationships, focusing on emotional expression between parents and children, food and time alone, and the choices ordinary people make on a limited income. Her tone is light, and she is good at starting from small, trivial details, with close-to-life observation and gentle humor. The series format of Lunch Sake suggests a sustained engagement with a single theme. Because information on her nationality and life is unavailable, this note only sketches the subjects and categories of the works in the collection, without speculating about her biography.
Zhu Tianyun is a Chinese author and translator of books, about whom public information is limited; details such as birth and death dates and nationality are not clearly known. Seven of the author's works are held in the collection, spanning foreign literature, mystery and detective fiction, and social science, which shows a range beyond a single field. Representative works include the translations The Izu Dancer and The Express Road (a selection of Seicho Matsumoto's short classics), as well as Surveillance, Epidemics and Civilization, and the three volumes of the Lunch Sake series. These titles suggest that Zhu Tianyun's work is largely connected with the translation and introduction of Japanese literature, covering both lyrical classics in the manner of Yasunari Kawabata and detective short stories in the vein of Seicho Matsumoto, while also touching on social-science writing about epidemics and civilization and on a series centered on food and daily life. The translations are aimed at Chinese readers and present both literary and informational works.
