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The Bells of Old Tokyo - Travels in Japanese Time (Paperback)
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The Bells of Old Tokyo - Travels in Japanese Time (Paperback)
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Loot Price R297
Discovery Miles 2 970
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As read on BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'
Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award
Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize
'Sherman’s is a special book. Every sentence, every thought she has,
every question she asks, every detail she notices, offers something.
The Bells of Old Tokyo is a gift . . . It is a masterpiece.' - Spectator
For over 300 years, Japan closed itself to outsiders, developing a
remarkable and unique culture. During its period of isolation, the
inhabitants of the city of Edo, later known as Tokyo, relied on its
public bells to tell the time. In her remarkable book, Anna Sherman
tells of her search for the bells of Edo, exploring the city of Tokyo
and its inhabitants and the individual and particular relationship of
Japanese culture - and the Japanese language - to time, tradition,
memory, impermanence and history.
Through Sherman’s journeys around the city and her friendship with the
owner of a small, exquisite cafe, who elevates the making and drinking
of coffee to an art-form, The Bells of Old Tokyo presents a series of
hauntingly memorable voices in the labyrinth that is the metropolis of
the Japanese capital: An aristocrat plays in the sea of ashes left by
the Allied firebombing of 1945. A scientist builds the most accurate
clock in the world, a clock that will not lose a second in five billion
years. A sculptor eats his father’s ashes while the head of the house
of Tokugawa reflects on the destruction of his grandfather’s city (‘A
lost thing is lost. To chase it leads to darkness’).
The result is a book that not only engages with the striking otherness
of Japanese culture like no other, but that also marks the arrival of a
dazzling new writer as she presents an absorbing and alluring
meditation on life through an exploration of a great city and its
people.
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