Sentaro is assembling dorayaki ready for the morning rush when Tokue comes into his shop. From its jacket and premise you might be forgiven for expecting a sweet treat but it’s much more than that. Sukegawa’s fable-like novella is about the relationship between an elderly woman who walks into a confectioner’s shop, hoping to fill the vacancy advertised in its window, and the reluctant young baker who agrees to take her on. Someone there has a very sharp editorial eye. I seem to have been on a bit of a Oneworld roll recently: first They Know Not What They Do – not without its faults but worth reading – then The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao, which looks set fair to be one of my books of 2017, and now Durian Sukegawa’s Sweet Bean Paste.
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