Author Name:
Hayder, Mo
Title:
Tokyo
Binding:
Hard Cover
Book Condition:
Fine
Jacket Condition:
Very Good
Edition:
First Edition
Size:
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Publisher:
London
Bantam
2004
ISBN Number:
0593049691 / 9780593049693
Seller ID:
002135
A Fine copy with dustjacket which has a mark left by label to front and a little light creasing to top. A haunting tale of a woman seeking film footage of a massacre in Nanking in 1937 who travels to Japan to seek the one survivor, a visiting professor there, who at first will have nothing to do with her. Desperate she takes a job in Tokyo as a hostess at nightspot frequented by gangsters and businessmen. There is an old man relying on a special elixir for his life which others are seeking. The author draws on her own experience of working as a hostess in a Tokyo club.
FICTION, JAPAN, HOSTESSES, NIGHT CLUB
Price =
7.00 GBP |
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