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The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction (Reading the City)
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Wydawca: CARCANET PR LTD
Data wydania: 01.12.2013
Seria: Reading the City
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
EAN: 9781905583577
Opis
Opis
A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to embark on an unstoppable rampage through the city s train network...
A young woman is accompanied home one night by a reclusive student, and finds herself lured into a flat full of eerie Egyptian artefacts...
A man suspects his young wife s obsession with picnicking every weekend in the city s parks hides a darker motive...
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.
A young woman is accompanied home one night by a reclusive student, and finds herself lured into a flat full of eerie Egyptian artefacts...
A man suspects his young wife s obsession with picnicking every weekend in the city s parks hides a darker motive...
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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Szczegóły
Data wydania: 01.12.2013
Liczba stron: 224
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
Wydawca: CARCANET PR LTD
Autorzy:
Seria: Reading the City
Tytuł:The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction (Reading the City)
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EAN: 9781905583577
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