Goodnight, Tokyo
Call Number
- FICTION YOSH (CEN)
Languages
In English, translated from Japanese.
Publication Information
New York NY ; London : Europa Editions, 2024.
Physical Description
174 pages ; 21 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
"Set over several nights, between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 4:30 a.m., in and around Tokyo, this mind-blowingly constructed book is an elaborate, energetic fresco of human nocturnal existence in all its mystery, an enigmatic literary mix of Agatha Christie, Teju Cole, and Heironymous Bosch. On this journey through the labyrinthine streets and hidden corners of one of the world's most fascinating cities, everybody is searching for something, and maybe searching in the wrong places. Elements of the fantastical and the surreal abound, as they tend to do in the early pre-dawn hours of the morning, yet the settings, the human stories, and each character's search are all as real as can be." -- Amazon.com
Contents
- The loquat thief
- Lost at 4:00 A.M.
- Eighteen keys
- Ham and eggs
- Peanuts and chameleons
- Veranda bat
- A rain of feathers
- Two moons
- A starless night
- Blue staircases
- Watching the stars
- The final piece
- Afterword.