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Ian Buruma

Tokyo Romance

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781782398028
  • Weight: 251g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Mar 2019
  • Publisher: Atlantic Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description

'The whole thing sparks astonishingly to life' Observer

When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a young film student in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in fragments.

Through his adventures in the world of avant-garde theatre, his encounters with carnival acts, fashion photographers and moments on-set with Akira Kurosawa, Buruma came of age. For an outsider, unattached to the cultural burdens placed on the Japanese, this was a place to be truly free.

A Tokyo Romance is a portrait of a young artist and the fantastical city that shaped him, and a timeless story about the desire to transgress boundaries: cultural, artistic and sexual.
About Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma's previous books include Their Promised Land, Year Zero, The China Lover, Murder in Amsterdam, Occidentalism, God's Dust, Behind the Mask, The Wages of Guilt, Bad Elements and Taming the Gods.