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.
The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City
Author: Anna Sherman | Hardcover
"A meditative exploration of time and change...Tokyo's past, although often physically erased by fires or constant demolition and construction in a nation that prizes change and modernization--is movingly excavated and evoked in this unusual book....Sherman is a profoundly evocative writer." --Heller McAlpin, The Wall Street Journal
"A beautiful debut of creative nonfiction." --Library Journal (Starred review)
A special book. Every sentence, every thought Sherman has, every question she asks, every detail she notices, offers something. The Bells of Old Tokyo is a gift....It is a masterpiece. --The Spectator [UK]
"Delightful... Bells is unknowable, but brilliantly so." --Japan Times
Publisher: Picador USA | Pub Date: August 13, 2019 | Format: Hardcover | Pages: 352 | Dimensions: 1.3" H x 8.3" L x 5.4" W | 0.9 lbs