The book of Tokyo - a city in short fiction

The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction

Korte verhalen van: Hideo Furukawa, Kaori Ekuni, Mitsuyo Kakuta, Banana Yoshimoto, Toshiyuki Horie, Nao-Cola Yamazaki, Hitomi Kanehara, Osamu Hashimoto, Hiromi Kawakami, Shuichi Yoshida

180 pages, Paperback
First published April 26, 2014
Ongelezen nieuwstaat

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 naïve 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.’

Genres Short Stories Japan Fiction Japanese Literature Contemporary

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