For those out there who dream about visiting Tokyo, are planning a trip or been there and keep on missing its hustle and bustle – a short story collection bound together by the location: Tokyo.
Hideo Furukawa (whom you may know from his Horses, Horses…) tells a story of a monster hailing from one of the Izu isles (actually a part of Tokyo prefecture). The monster reaches the city centre, boards the train and suddenly… goes berserk.
Kaori Ekuni (author of Błysk szczęścia)writes about a pair, that shares short moments of peace on strolls and picnics together in a park close by. „When you have a picnic, you feel like you’re not all alone” – says Kyoko However, for her husband, narrating the story, the picnics are not such a peaceful moment whatsoever.
Mitsuyo Kakuta writes about the pleasure of shopping – and mother-daughter relations. Relation which is closer than anything. Toshiyuki Horie, on the other hand, in The Owl’s Estate talks about a different kind of home. A share house of a French women living in Tokyo and her other house-mates.
Nao-Cola Yamazki’s Dad, I Love You is a warm tale – a story of a salaryman, whose wife left suddenly. All alone he still tries to get a bit of sunshine into his life.
