The Book of Tokyo - A City in Short Fiction (Paperback)

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.'

General

Imprint:	Comma Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Reading the City
Release date:	March 2015
First published:	October 2014
Editors:	Masashi Matsuie
Authors:	Banana Yoshimoto • Shuichi Yoshida • Nao-Cola Yamazaki • Hiromi Kawakami • Hitomi Kanehara • Mitsuyo Kakuta • Toshiyuki Horie • Osamu Hashimoto • Hideo Furukawa
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-905583-57-7
Subtitles:	Japanese
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General
LSN:	1-905583-57-5
Barcode:	9781905583577

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