The Book of Tokyo : A City in Short Fiction Paperback / softback
by Banana Yoshimoto, Shuichi Yoshida, Nao-Cola Yamazaki, Hiromi Kawakami, Hitomi Kanehara, Mitsuyo Kakuta, Toshiyuki Horie, Osamu Hashimoto, Hideo Furukawa
Edited by Masashi Matsuie
Part of the Reading the City series
Paperback / softback
Description
At first, Tokyo appears in these stories as it does to many outsiders: a city of bewildering scale, awe-inspiring modernity, peculiar rules, unknowable secrets and, to some extent, danger.
Characters observe their fellow citizens from afar, hesitant to stray from their daily routines to engage with them.
But Tokyo being the city it is, random encounters inevitably take place - a naive book collector, mistaken for a French speaker, is drawn into a world he never knew existed; a woman seeking psychiatric help finds herself in a taxi with an older man wanting to share his own peculiar revelations; a depressed divorcee accepts an unexpected lunch invitation to try Thai food for the very first time...
The result in each story is a small but crucial change in perspective, a sampling of the unexpected yet simple pleasure of other people's company.
As one character puts it, 'The world is full of delicious things, you know.'
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, Black and white map illustrations
- Publisher:Comma Press
- Publication Date:26/03/2015
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- ISBN:9781905583577
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Information
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, Black and white map illustrations
- Publisher:Comma Press
- Publication Date:26/03/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781905583577
