Banana Yoshimoto

Book of Tokyo

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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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215 printed pages
Publication year
2014
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  • Evelina Todorovahas quotedlast year
    A girl on the brink of her twenties will often carry on as though she’s figured out the entire world in her tiny little head; I was certainly no exception. She’s usually frustrated or irritated for no reason at all. Probably a question of hormones. But sometimes a hormonal imbalance can give birth to an abnormally keen sensitivity. A fleeting brilliance, like a rainbow that arches clear across the sky for just a brief instant. And a select few have the ability to sniff out the scent of others with it.
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