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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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Autofiction (Paperback)
Hitomi Kanehara
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Rin is flying back from her honeymoon. She's madly in love with her
husband, Shin, and the future looks rosy. Then Shin disappears to
the bathroom while he thinks Rin is sleeping and she starts to
imagine that he has gone to seduce the flight attendant. As her
thoughts spiral out of control the phrase 'madly in love' takes on
a more sinister meaning. Prizewinning author Hitomi Kanehara's
sensational novel, Autofiction, follows Rin's life backwards
through time from this moment so that we see her when she is
eighteen, sixteen and finally fifteen, and a picture of the dark
heart and violent past of this disturbed young woman gradually
develops.
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