By Alisa Freedman
ISBN-10: 0804771448
ISBN-13: 9780804771443
ISBN-10: 0804771456
ISBN-13: 9780804771450
Freedman persuasively argues that, via descriptions of trains and buses, stations, delivery staff, and passengers, eastern authors replied to contradictions in Tokyo's city modernity and uncovered the results of quick swap at the person. She shines a gentle on how prewar delivery tradition anticipates what's attention-grabbing and difficult approximately Tokyo this present day, supplying perception into how humans make themselves at domestic within the urban. An approachable and stress-free ebook, Tokyo in Transit bargains a thrilling trip via smooth jap literature and tradition, and comprises the 1st English translation of Kawabata Yasunari's The Corpse Introducer, a 1929 crime novella that provides a tremendous new aspect of its Nobel Prizewinning writer.
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