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Goodnight Tokyo
Yoshida, Atsuhiro, 1962-2025
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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 and compellingly connected.
Main title:
Goodnight Tokyo / Atsuhiro Yoshida ; translated by Haydn Trowell.
Author:
Yoshida, Atsuhiro, 1962-, authorTrowell, Haydn, translator
Imprint:
London : Europa Editions, 2025.
Collation:
176 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Japanese.
ISBN:
9781787705579 (pbk)
Dewey class:
895.636FICTION
Language:
EnglishJapanese
Subject:
BRN:
3948828