Lost Girls and Love Hotels

ISBN-13: 9780060846848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 240 str.

Catherine Hanrahan

Opis

Margaret is doing everything in her power to forget home. And Tokyo's exotic nightlife -- teeming with intoxicants, pornography, and three-hour love hotels -- enables her to keep her demons at bay. Working as an English specialist at Air-Pro Stewardess Training Institute by day, and losing herself in a sex- and drug-addled oblivion by night, Margaret represses memories of her painful childhood and her older brother Frank's descent into madness.But Margaret's deliberate nihilism is thrown off balance as she becomes increasingly haunted by images of a Western girl missing in Tokyo. And when she becomes enamored of Kazu, a mysterious gangster, their affair sparks a chain of events that could spell tragedy for Margaret, in a city where it's all too easy to disappear.

Recenzje

"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

O autorze

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.