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Wrong About Japan: A Father's Journey with His Son,Used
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The recipient of two Booker Prizes, Peter Carey expands his extraordinary achievement with each new noveland now gives us something entirely different.When famously shy Charley becomes obsessed with Japanese manga and anime, Peter is not only delighted for his son but also entranced himself. Thus begins a journey, with a father sharing his twelveyearolds exotic comic books, that ultimately leads them to Tokyo, where a strange Japanese boy will become both their guide and judge. Quickly the visitors plunge deep into the lanes of Shitimachiinto the weird stuff of modern Japanmeeting manga artists and anime directors; painstaking impersonators called visualists, who adopt a remarkable variety of personae; and solitary otakus, whose existence is thoroughly computerized. What emerges from these encounters is a farranging study of history and of culture both high and lowfrom samurai to salaryman, from Kabuki theater to the postwar robot craze. Peter Careys observations are always provocative, even when his hosts point out, politely, that he is once again wrong about Japan. And his adventures with Charley are at once comic, surprising, and deeply moving, as father and son cope with and learn from each other in a strange place far from home.This is, in the end, a remarkable portrait of a culturewhether Japan or adolescencethat looks eerily familiar but remains tantalizingly closed to outsiders.
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