Hisashi Kashiwai

Jun 19, 2024 | asiasociety.org | Hisashi Kashiwai

For this Book Salon, we will read The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai. About the book (publisher's description):What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that’s not the main reason customers stop by... The father-daughter duo are ‘food detectives’.

Mar 16, 2024 | journalgazette.net | Derek Miller |Adelle Waldman |Joel Morris |Hisashi Kashiwai

These works of literary fiction are newly available from the Allen County Public Library. “The Curse of Pietro Houdini”by Derek B. Miller In 1943, 14-year-old Massimo, rescued by a mysterious man called Pietro Houdini who preserves the treasures within a Benedictine abbey’s wall, accompanies him on a World War II art heist adventure. They lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill and sin to survive, while smuggling Renaissance masterpieces they’ve rescued from the “safe keeping” of the Germans.

Jan 1, 2024 | libraryjournal.com | Hisashi Kashiwai

Published in Japan in 2013 to great acclaim, each chapter of this outstanding novel (Kashiwai’s first to be translated into English) begins with a different character—a policeman, a politician, a piano teacher, an entrepreneur, a housewife, and a restauranteur’s ex-wife—wandering the side streets of Kyoto to find the mysterious and hidden Kawogawa restaurant, which doubles as an agency for “food detectives.” Visitors to the agency express their longing to taste a specific dish from their past.

Nov 10, 2023 | outlookindia.com | Hisashi Kashiwai |Anjana Basu

The Kamogawa Food Detectives: By Hisashi Kashiwai Translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood Published by Pan Macmillan Japanese detective stories have been gradually infiltrating the consciousness of Indian readers and creating their own waves of effect. The Kamogawa Food Detectives however, puts a different spin on detection. This is not a book about bodies and violence though it is definitely about putting the clues together – it is a book about finding lost food.