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  • Tokyo Juku
    Michael Pronko
    A cram school. A murdered teacher. A city full of secrets.Eighteen-year-old Mana is desperate to escape failure in Japan’s unforgiving exam culture. After a year of defeat, she throws herself into sleepless nights at a Tokyo cram school. But one late night, a study break changes everything. Her teacher-the man who gave her hope-lies murdered in a classroom. Suddenly, Mana isn’t...
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    19,83 €

  • A Guide to Jazz in Japan
    Michael Pronko
    Fusing historical depth, cultural nuance, and travel insight into one beautifully written volume, A Guide to Jazz in Japan takes you through one of the most vibrant jazz scenes in the world. More than just a guide, it’s a love letter to Japanese jazz and an indispensable cultural resource for curious, globally minded readers.Whether you’re visiting Japan, living there, armchair...
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    15,78 €

  • Tokyo Tempos
    Michael Pronko
    In Tokyo Tempos, award-winning mystery writer Michael Pronko explores the mystery of everyday Tokyo life. Drawing on three decades of living, writing, and teaching in Japan, he delves into Tokyo’s dynamism to show what it’s like living with Japanese food, seasons, ceremonies, and special moments he calls 'small intensities.'These pithy, pointed writings reveal how even massive ...
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    17,67 €

  • Shitamachi Scam
    Michael Pronko
    In Tokyo’s old quarter, the past doesn’t fade. It gets stolen. A frail woman is hit by a motorscooter on a quiet street in the Shitamachi district-one of Tokyo’s last neighborhoods untouched by the high-rises and commercial sprawl. To Detective Hiroshi Shimizu, it seems more than an accident. And then the money starts to move. As Hiroshi digs deeper, he uncovers a slick network...
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    19,75 €

  • Azabu Getaway
    Michael Pronko
    A father on the run. Two daughters in danger. Millions in dirty money moving overseas. When a Tokyo financier vanishes with his two young daughters, Detective Hiroshi Shimizu is called in to track what looks like a desperate escape from a messy murder scene. But the trail of forged transfers, offshore accounts, and silent partners tells another story-a high-stakes financial hei...
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    19,82 €

  • Tokyo Zangyo
    Michael Pronko
    In a city built on endless overtime, some people clock out for good. When a senior executive dives from the rooftop of a media empire, the fall is written off as another casualty of 'zangyo'-Japan’s notorious overtime culture. But Detective Hiroshi knows better. He’s seen how the city chews up people and calls it business. To the suits upstairs, it’s an unfortunate headline. T...
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    19,56 €

  • Tokyo Traffic
    Michael Pronko
    Running from a life she didn’t choose, in a city she doesn’t know. In the glow of Tokyo’s endless neon, three bodies lie in a studio-one of them still breathing. Detective Hiroshi Shimizu is called from his desk and thrown into a case that spirals through the city’s darkest arteries. What begins as a brutal multiple murder soon leads him into the sleek, deadly machinery of huma...
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    19,78 €

  • The Moving Blade
    Michael Pronko
    Peace is a performance. Murder is the encore. When American diplomat Bernard Mattson is found dead in his Tokyo home-his stomach opened by a Japanese sword-Detective Hiroshi Shimizu is called to the scene. The diplomat’s estranged daughter, Jamie Mattson, half-Japanese and half-American, arrives to collect her father’s research manuscript-a document powerful enough to reshape U...
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    19,66 €

  • The Last Train
    Michael Pronko
    The city never sleeps. Neither does revenge. Winner of multiple international mystery awards Winner Shelf Unbound Best Independently Published Book (2018) Solo Medalist Winner New Apple E-Book Awards for Mystery (2017) Winner Beverly Hills Book Awards for Crime Fiction (2017) Winner Best Mystery Book Excellence Awards (2017) Winner Independent Press Award for Mystery and Thril...
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    19,41 €

  • Motions and Moments
    Michael Pronko
    'Takes the sweeping size, bustle, and chaos of Tokyo and makes it small, introspective, and personal,' Independent Publisher. 'Captures the essence and allure of Tokyo.' Feathered Quill.'A memoir to be savored like a fine red wine,' Publishers Daily. Motions and Moments captures the ceaseless flow and brief momentary dramas of the biggest city in the world with gentle humor and...
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    15,86 €

  • Tokyo’s Mystery Deepens
    Michael Pronko
    'A rare glimpse of the structure and nature of Tokyo’s underlying psyche.' Midwest Book Review Award-winning novelist Michael Pronko examines Tokyo as a place, a culture, and a series of intense experiences. Tokyo’s Mystery Deepens digs into the enigmatic sides of Tokyo with humor, delicacy, and enchantment. A transplanted American from the Midwest, Pronko’s observations and ex...
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    12,31 €

  • Beauty and Chaos
    Michael Pronko
    'Tokyo is as complex as a long novel, as confusing as an avant-garde film and, sometimes, as strikingly beautiful as calligraphy.' Part memoir, part travelogue, and part culture guide, Beauty and Chaos taps into the daily mysteries and poignant moments that make living in Tokyo a baffling delight. After two-plus decades writing, teaching, and living in Tokyo, American novelist ...
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    12,27 €