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Tokyo Performance

Tokyo Performance

Tokyo Performance

Roger Pulvers

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Editorial:
Red Circle
Año de edición:
2018
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781912864027
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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 ReadsTokyo 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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