Goodnight Tokyo : The English language debut from bestselling Japanese author

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by Yoshida, Atsuhiro | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published 18/07/2024 by Europa Editions (UK) Ltd in the United Kingdom Paperback | 176 pages135 x 210 x 16mm | 18 6g“A must-read for Murakami fans.”—Hotlist Matsui is the driver of a taxi the colour of the night sky. Every night between the hours of 1 am and 4.30 am, Matsui guides his taxi around the streets of Tokyo, collecting passengers and their stories. Seen through the eyes of a cast of colourful characters, Goodnight Tokyo takes the reader on an intimate journey around Tokyo after dark, when Tokyo’s eccentrics and insomniacs emerge, and a small grain of madness begins to germinate in the city’s night air. Confessions of intimacy and loneliness merge with the surreal: the funeral of an old telephone, the flea-market in which objects are bartered for that don’t actually exist. Told over a number of nights – and punctuated by Matsui’s dawn arrival at his favourite canteen for a plate of their famous ham and eggs – Yoshida weaves a web of stories that prove to be intimately cand compellingly connected. Show more