Tokyo: Travel with a Writer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9782919841035)

Vendor: Emily Itami
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Format: Paperback
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Tokyo: Travel with a Writer

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Tokyo: Travel with a Writer

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Format: Paperback
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Tokyo: quaint and vast, majestic and baffling. Unspoiled parks and roiling tourist traps, artisanal delicacies and millions of vending machines, highly efficient commuter trains packed with snoozing salarymen.

Can an outsider--or even a native who left--ever hope to keep up?

When Anna reconnects with her childhood friend Tsubasa after years apart, they strike up a wide-ranging correspondence. They have much to tell about their lives and memories and dreams, but also about the city they once shared.

As their connection deepens, Tokyo's codes and customs and unspoken rules unfold in revealing lessons: how politeness conceals a world of meaning; how falling asleep during a business meeting can signal exemplary commitment; how alienating vastness can give way, without warning, to intimacy.

Brought to charismatic life by novelist Emily Itami, Tokyo is funny, tender, and gently disorienting: an epistolary love story and a brisk primer in the complex etiquette of a city that reveals and withholds in equal measure.

Author: Emily Itami
ISBN-10: 2919841033
ISBN-13: 9782919841035
Publisher: Walking Tree
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2026
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
By Emily Itami
By Emily Itami
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Emily Itami was born to a Japanese mother and British father and spent her formative years in Tokyo. Her debut novel, Fault Lines, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award in the UK. Her work explores cross-cultural identity, relationships, and contemporary urban life. She has lived in both Tokyo and London. She is currently based in London.

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