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The Book of Tokyo: A City In Short Fiction (Reading the City)

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The Book of Tokyo: A City In Short Fiction (Reading the City)

A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to embark on an unstoppable rampage through the cityâ€™s train networkâ€¦

A young woman is accompanied home one night by a reclusive student, and finds herself lured into a flat full of eerie Egyptian artefactsâ€¦

A man suspects his young wifeâ€™s obsession with picnicking every
weekend in the cityâ€™s parks hides a darker motiveâ€¦

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 â€“ a naÃ¯ve 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 timeâ€¦ The result in each story is a small but crucial change in perspective, a sampling of the unexpected yet simple pleasure of other peopleâ€™s company. As one character puts it, â€˜The world is full of delicious things, you know.â€™

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Comma Press
Manufacturer	Comma Press
NumberOfPages	224
PublicationDate	2015-05-14
Publisher	Comma Press
ReleaseDate	2015-05-14
Studio	Comma Press

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