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Tokyo
Stories
Life, Love
and
Laughter in the Big City
by Christine Miki
In "Tokyo Stories", Christine Miki provides
entertaining
glimpses into the almost comical lives of some foreigners in Tokyo, and
shows us how their very different adventures and experiences become
hilariously and unthinkably intertwined within the vast social
landscape of this anything-goes metropolis.
Peter
is an underachieving English teacher in a perpetual state of depression
and bad luck. Henry,
a successful stockbroker prowling the city for romantic fun, gets stuck
with a hysterical girlfriend with marriage on her mind instead. Ernesto, a popular diplomat
and bachelor-about-town, hosts a chaotic dinner at home. Marjorie and Paul launch World War III
in the city's finest neighborhoods. Stephanie, a free soul
struggling as a proof-reader by day, reinvents herself to gatecrash
Tokyo's best networking parties. Alastair considers buying a
monkey to replace his dead fish. Reena plans a party that
turns into a shocking screaming match. And
much more.
"... painfully
delightful ..."
Jim Merk, Co-Publisher, The Tokyo Weekender
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Publisher: Oshino Books
Author: Christine Cunanan-Miki
ISBN: 4-902425-00-9
Year published: 2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 195 Page size: 145x205mm
Base price: Yen 1,500++
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Comment: A substantial
portion of the expatriate ("gaijin" is the impolite but
preferred word, "gaikokujin" is more PC, both refer to "outsider")
community in Japan lives and works within or on the outskirts of the
embassy and big-business districts of Azabu and Aoyama. This novel
takes a humorous thrust at the pride and foibles of this fluid but
unchanging community.
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Japan
& East Asia
JEPPstandard
1,000s of English publications from or on |
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