Lost Girls And Love Hotels
(Sprache: Englisch)
Now a feature film starring Alexandra Daddario
An achingly honest debut novel of memory, self-destruction, and relationships set in contemporary Tokyo
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An achingly honest debut novel of memory, self-destruction, and relationships set in contemporary Tokyo
...
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Now a feature film starring Alexandra Daddario An achingly honest debut novel of memory, self-destruction, and relationships set in contemporary Tokyo
Sometimes, when I'm staring down a room of Japanese stewardesses-in-training, looking across a sea of shiny black coifs, a chorus line of stockinged legs, knees together, toes to the side, when I'm chanting, "Sir, you are endangering yourself and other passengers!" I think I should have let my brother stab me . . .
Margaret is doing everything in her power to forget home. And Tokyo's red light district-teeming with intoxicants, pornography, and seedy love hotels-is almost enough to keep at bay memories of her brother Frank's descent into schizophrenia. But sobriety brings the past flooding back, along with a pervasive fear that she, too, is destined to battle mental illness.
Working as an English specialist at a training academy for Japanese stewardesses by day, and losing herself at night in drugs, alcohol, and S&M fueled sex in the arms of anonymous men, Margaret numbs her loneliness with self destruction, wondering when she'll take things too far. And when she falls for a married man who is part of Tokyo's illicit underworld, their relationship might finally force her hand. . . .
Autoren-Porträt von Catherine Hanrahan
Catherine Hanrahan 's fiction has appeared in Zoetrope All-Story Extra and Open City. Born in Montreal, she has lived in Thailand, England, and Japan, where she worked as a bar hostess and English teacher.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Catherine Hanrahan
- 2006, 240 Seiten, Maße: 13,3 x 20,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: HarperCollins UK
- ISBN-10: 0060846844
- ISBN-13: 9780060846848
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.07.2006
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Edgy, hip... This insider view of high-end Japanese youth culture is wicked and unsparing." - Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW"This ambitious first novel may blow a few of the book-and-brunch set out of their orientalist armchairs..." - Toronto Globe and Mail
"Hanrahan presents a Tokyo far from cherry blossoms and Zen temples...an admirable debut, sharp as a samurai's sword." - Calgary Herald
"Catherine Hanrahan's first novel, Lost Girls And Love Hotels, shows huge potential." - Now Magazine (Canada)
"Lost Girls and Love Hotels could almost be read as an alternative travel guide." - Quill & Quire
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