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Tokyo Performance
Paperback
Series: Red Circle Minis, Book 3
General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781912864027
Publisher: Archie Comic Pubn
Published: Nov 23 2018
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.14 Width: 4.25 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
Tokyo Performance is set in the pre-internet age, brilliantly captures the zeitgeist of Japan at the time. In this riveting, entertaining and wholly poignant tale, a Japanese celebrity receives a phone call while live on air that will change his life forever.
Nori, a high profile Tokyo-based celebrity chef with his own weekly television show, is famous and beloved and he knows it - but he's about to put in his strangest performance.
Award-winning writer, playwright and film director, Roger Pulvers, brings his love and deep fascination for Japanese culture to Tokyo Performance, a funny and, at times, tragic story, which explores the cost of fame.
Red Circle Minis: Original, Short and Compelling Reads
Tokyo Performance is part of Red Circle Minis, a series of short captivating books by Japan's finest contemporary writers that brings the narratives and voices of Japan together as never before. Each book is a first edition written specifically for the series and is being published in English first.
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