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    100 Years of Vicissitude
    100 Years of Vicissitude
    100 Years of Vicissitude
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    100 Years of Vicissitude

    By Andrez Bergen

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    "First up, a disclaimer. I suspect I am a dead man. I have meagre proof, no framed- up certification, nothing to toss in a court of law as evidence of a rapid departure from the mortal coil. I recall a gun was involved, pressed up against my skull, and a loud explosion followed."

    Thus begins our narrator in a purgatorial tour through twentieth-century Japanese history, with a ghostly geisha who has seen it all as a guide and a corrupt millionaire as her reluctant companion.

    Thrown into the milieu are saké, B-29s, Lewis Carroll, Sir Thomas Malory, Melbourne, 'The Wizard of Oz', and a dirigible - along with the allusion that Red Riding Hood might just be involved.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Hunt Publishing
    Release dateOct 26, 2012
    ISBN9781780995984
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