Hatsukoi Shokudo (Shogakukan Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Kiriko Hinata, who has a strong complex about her own appearance, has been unable to build good human relations at her workplace, a condominium for single elderly people called "Miwa-so. She was about to quit when a seventy-two-year-old delinquent, Joji Spooner, appeared in front of her. He speaks in a stylish Edo dialect and brings her to "Izakaya Yabuhebi," where Kiriko's heart gradually becomes relaxed through the warm food, which is roughly but skillfully prepared, and through conversations with kind-hearted people who are trying their best to live their troubled lives. You will be fooled by the protagonist's unexpected true face. The long-awaited paperback edition of the winner of the first "Japan Delicious Novel Award"!

自分の容貌に強烈なコンプレックスを抱く日向桐子は、職場の単身高齢者向けマンション「みぎわ荘」でも人間関係をうまく築くことができないでいた。もう辞めよう、そう思っていた桐子の前に現れたのは、七十二歳の不良老人・匙田譲治。小粋な江戸弁で話す匙田に連れてこられた「居酒屋やぶへび」で、大雑把ながら手際よくつくられた温かい料理と、悩み多き人生を懸命に生きる心優しい人々との対話を通じ、桐子の心は少しずつほぐされていく。主人公の意外な素顔に、きっとあなたも騙される。第一回「日本おいしい小説大賞」受賞作、待望の文庫化!