A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir

by Ian Buruma

Book Overview

A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970's When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant land. A sensitive misfit in the world of his upper middleclass youth, what he longed for wasn't so much the exotic as the raw, unfiltered humanity he had...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101981431
• ISBN13: 9781101981436
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.9"