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The Restaurant of Many Orders
Kenji Miyazawa
Two young gentlemen lose their way in the mountains and find a Western-style restaurant called Yamanekoken.
Hungry, they enter and find a polite instruction written on each door.
Its signs and their conversations create an uneasy kind of comedy.
Why read it now
A good choice for a week when you want to enjoy the rhythm of short signs and dialogue.
Before reading
It appeared in Miyazawa's first collection of children's stories, The Restaurant of Many Orders, published in 1924.
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