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The Bells of Old Tokyo
- Meditations on Time and a City
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Bells of Old Tokyo af Anna Sherman, 9781250206404
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
337
ISBN-13:
9781250206404
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1250206405
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
13 aug 2019
Størrelse i cm:
21,7 x 14,5 x 3,2
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
13 aug 2019
Forfatter(e):

The Bells of Old Tokyo

- Meditations on Time and a City
Engelsk
Hardback 2019
Format:

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An elegant and absorbing tour of Tokyo and its residents

From 1632 until 1854, Japan’s rulers restricted contact with foreign countries, a near isolation that fostered a remarkable and unique culture that endures to this day. In hypnotic prose and sensual detail, Anna Sherman describes searching for the great bells by which the inhabitants of Edo, later called Tokyo, kept the hours in the shoguns’ city.

An exploration of Tokyo becomes a meditation not just on time, but on history, memory, and impermanence. Through Sherman’s journeys around the city and her friendship with the owner of a small, exquisite cafe, who elevates the making and drinking of coffee to an art-form, The Bells of Old Tokyo follows haunting voices through the labyrinth that is the Japanese capital: an old woman remembers escaping from the American firebombs of World War II. A scientist builds the most accurate clock in the world, a clock that will not lose a second in five billion years. The head of the Tokugawa shogunal house reflects on the destruction of his grandfathers’ city: “A lost thing is lost. To chase it leads to darkness.”

The Bells of Old Tokyo marks the arrival of a dazzling new writer who presents an absorbing and alluring meditation on life in the guise of a tour through a city and its people.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
337
ISBN-13:
9781250206404
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1250206405
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
13 aug 2019
Størrelse i cm:
21,7 x 14,5 x 3,2
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
13 aug 2019
Forfatter(e):
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