The book of Tokyo
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The book of Tokyo
Comma Press, 2015
- : pbk
- タイトル別名
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The book of Tokyo : a city in short fiction
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注記
Translated from the Japanese
収録内容
- Model T Frankenstein / Hideo Furukawa ; translated by Samuel Malissa
- Picnic / Ekuni Kaori ; translated by Lydia Moëd
- A house for two / Mitsuyo Kakuta ; translated by Hart Larrabee
- Mummy / Banana Yoshimoto ; translated by Takami Nieda
- The owl's estate / Toshiyuki Horie ; translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies
- Dad, I love you / Nao-cola Yamazaki ; translated by Morgan Giles
- Mambo / Hitomi Kanehara ; translated by Dan Bradley
- Vortex / Osamu Hashimoto ; translated by Asa Yoneda
- The hut on the roof / Hiromi Kawakami ; translated by Lucy Fraser
- An elevator on Sunday / Shuichi Yoshida ; translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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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