Tokyo Tempos - Pronko, Michael

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Résumé :
In Tokyo Tempos, award-winning mystery writer Michael Pronko explores the mystery of everyday Tokyo life. Drawing on three decades of living, writing, and teaching in Japan, he delves into Tokyo's dynamism to show what it's like living with Japanese food, seasons, ceremonies, and special moments he calls small intensities. These pithy, pointed writings reveal how even massive cities like Tokyo live and breathe with the loves, hopes, pleasures, and meanings of the people who live there. These personal and philosophical explorations, part travelogue and part analysis, paint a vivid portrait of the city rich with curiosity and insight. Join Pronko on his journey into the contradictions, intricacies, and enigmas of Tokyo, a city that is old and new, immense and intimate, indifferent and yet very humane. Independent Book Review called the essays A medley of vignettes that are as eclectic as they are eloquent. Authentic and immersive, Tokyo Tempos takes readers deep into the compelling rhythms of Tokyo life. Tokyo Tempos is the fourth in the Tokyo Moments Series. More on the other books in the series: Motions and Moments Pronko takes the sweeping size, bustle, and chaos of Tokyo and makes it small, introspective, and personal. Independent Publisher Tokyo's Mystery Deepens A rare glimpse of the structure and nature of Tokyo's underlying psyche. Midwest Book Review Beauty and Chaos An elegantly written, precisely observed portrait of a Japanese city and its culture. Kirkus Reviews As for the Detective Hiroshi series set in Tokyo: If there's a better crime series set in Japan, I've not yet read it. Crime Thriller Hound The city of Tokyo is very much a character in its own right. It's not the tourist hotspots we see, but the real city with the food and drink which the locals consume. It's glorious. The Bookbag review of Tokyo Traffic. BookLife Review wrote that Pronko's sixth novel, Shitamachi Scam, does as good a job of taking us on a trip through Tokyo as Simenon does through Inspector Maigret's Paris. So, join Pronko on an enlightening non-fictional trip through Tokyo in the Tokyo Moments Series....

Biographie:
Michael Pronko is a Tokyo-based writer of murder, memoir and music. His writing about Tokyo life and his character-driven mysteries have won awards and five-star reviews. Kirkus Reviews selected his second novel, The Moving Blade for their Best Books of 2018. The Last Train won the Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book. Michael also runs the website, Jazz in Japan, which covers the vibrant jazz scene in Tokyo and Yokohama. During his 20 years in Japan, he has written about Japanese culture, art, society and politics for Newsweek Japan, The Japan Times, and Artscape Japan. He has read his essays on NHK TV and done programs for Nippon Television based on his writings. A philosophy major, Michael traveled for years, ducking in and out of graduate schools, before finishing his PhD on Charles Dickens and film. He finally settled in Tokyo as a professor of American Literature at Meiji Gakuin University. His seminars focus on contemporary novels, short stories and film adaptations. More at: michaelpronko.com/ facebook.com/pronkoauthor twitter.com/pronkomichael instagram.com/michaelpronko/...

Sommaire:
Award-winning novelist, essayist, and journalist Michael Pronko has nearly thirty years of experience writing about jazz and Japan for Tokyo Q, The Japan Times, JJazz.net, Jazznin, and other publications. He contributed a chapter on Japanese jazz to The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies (2021) and to The Jazz Omnibus (2024) collection of the Jazz Journalists Association. He runs the Jazz in Japan website with reviews, previews, essays, and interviews. He's also the author of the award-winning Tokyo-based Detective Hiroshi mystery series and the acclaimed Tokyo Moments series....