![]() Tokue, an old woman with fingers to bear the scars of her battle with leprosy, tries to convince Sentaro to let her have the job. The book starts of with Sentaro having put up a sign for help wanted at the store less out of necessity and more to do with quelling the never-ending boredom of running the store alone. ![]() There, under the supervision of the store owner’s wife, Sentaro spends his time making dorayaki, a sweet snack filled with sweet bean paste goodness, in order to repay his debt to the store owner. After the owner of a store cleared Sentaro’s debts for him, our main character continues to work in the store of Doraharu even after the store owner died. Sweet Bean Paste’s protagonist is a man named Sentaro. ![]() A Japanese-translated novel, Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa hits all the right places. ![]()
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