- SKU: 9781942410348
- BARCODE: 9781942410348
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Tokyo Tempos - Paperback
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by Michael Pronko (Author)
In Tokyo Tempos, award-winning mystery writer Michael Pronko explores the mystery of everyday Tokyo life. Drawing on three decades of living, writing, and teaching in Japan, he delves into Tokyo's dynamism to show what it's like living with Japanese food, seasons, ceremonies, and special moments he calls "small intensities."
These pithy, pointed writings reveal how even massive cities like Tokyo live and breathe with the loves, hopes, pleasures, and meanings of the people who live there. These personal and philosophical explorations, part travelogue and part analysis, paint a vivid portrait of the city rich with curiosity and insight.
Join Pronko on his journey into the contradictions, intricacies, and enigmas of Tokyo, a city that is old and new, immense and intimate, indifferent and yet very humane. Independent Book Review called the essays "A medley of vignettes that are as eclectic as they are eloquent." Authentic and immersive, Tokyo Tempos takes readers deep into the compelling rhythms of Tokyo life.
Tokyo Tempos is the fourth in the Tokyo Moments Series. More on the other books in the series:
Motions and Moments
"Pronko takes the sweeping size, bustle, and chaos of Tokyo and makes it small, introspective, and personal." Independent Publisher
Tokyo's Mystery Deepens
"A rare glimpse of the structure and nature of Tokyo's underlying psyche." Midwest Book Review
Beauty and Chaos
"An elegantly written, precisely observed portrait of a Japanese city and its culture." Kirkus Reviews
As for the Detective Hiroshi series set in Tokyo: "If there's a better crime series set in Japan, I've not yet read it." Crime Thriller Hound
"The city of Tokyo is very much a character in its own right. It's not the tourist hotspots we see, but the real city with the food and drink which the locals consume. It's glorious." The Bookbag review of Tokyo Traffic.
BookLife Review wrote that Pronko's sixth novel, Shitamachi Scam, "does as good a job of taking us on a trip through Tokyo as Simenon does through Inspector Maigret's Paris."
So, join Pronko on an enlightening non-fictional trip through Tokyo in the Tokyo Moments Series.
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