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The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction (Reading the City) by Michael Emmerich; Jim Hinks; Masashi Matsuie; Hideo Furukawa; Kaori Ekuni; Mitsuyo Kakuta; Banana Yoshimoto; Toshiyuki Horie; Nao-Cola Yamazaki; Hitomi Kanehara; Osamu Hashimoto; Hiromi Kawakami; Shichi Yoshida; Samuel Malissa; Lydia Moed; Hart Larrabee; Takami Nieda; Jonathan Lloyd-Davies; Morgan Giles; Dan Bradley; Asa Yoneda; Lucy Fraser; Ginny Tapley Takemori is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to embark on an unstoppable rampage through the citys 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 wifes obsession with picnicking every weekend in the citys 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 nave 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

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Author

Michael Emmerich; Jim Hinks; Masashi Matsuie; Hideo Furukawa; Kaori Ekuni; Mitsuyo Kakuta; Banana Yoshimoto; Toshiyuki Horie; Nao-Cola Yamazaki; Hitomi Kanehara; Osamu Hashimoto; Hiromi Kawakami; Shichi Yoshida; Samuel Malissa; Lydia Moed; Hart Larrabee; Takami Nieda; Jonathan Lloyd-Davies; Morgan Giles; Dan Bradley; Asa Yoneda; Lucy Fraser; Ginny Tapley Takemori

Publisher

Comma Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781905583577

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

3.64 / 5 (97 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13