Matcha on Monday
A Novel
Will be published approx. on 7. July 2026
208 pages
E-Book
978-0-3697-7534-4 (ISBN)
Description
Across a bridge in a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo, a charming little matcha café - open only on Mondays - offers a beacon of light and healing to all who pass through its doors.
All throughout the week, customers flock to the Marble Café that's tucked away behind the trees - except when it's closed on Mondays, when the Matcha Café opens in its place, offering its clientele a warm cup of matcha and restoration to start the busy week ahead.
On this one day of the week, people from all walks of life frequent this cozy haven and experience the joys of human connection. Among them include:
- A singer who has just broken up with his lover
- An unsociable young owner of a tea wholesaler
- A husband who has made his wife angry
- A designer and owner of a lingerie shop
- A Kamishibai artist who doesn't get along with his grandmother
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approx. 07/2026
Hanover Square Press
€19.50
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Person
Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. After university, she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Tokyo to work as a magazine editor. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library was short-listed for the Japan Booksellers' Award and became a Japanese bestseller. It is being translated into more than fifteen languages. Michiko Aoyama lives in Yokohama, Japan.
