"I am in the story of heaven with this book." Cecelia Ahern, author of P.S. I love you Sentaro failed.

He has a criminal record, drinks a lot, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With cherry blossoms flourishing just to revive the time, he spends his days in a small candy store selling dorayaki, a kind of pie filled with sweet bean paste. But everything is about to change.

In his life comes Tokue, an elderly woman with a tarnished past tense hands. Tokue makes it the best sweet bean paste that has ever tasted Centaro.

She begins to teach her craft, but as their friendship flourishes, it becomes impossible to escape the social pressures, revealing the mystery of the mysterious Toky, with devastating consequences. Sweet Bean Paste is a moving account of the burden of the past and the power of compensatory friendship.

Translated into English for the first time, the beautiful prose Durian Skigawa is capturing hearts all over the world.