Tokyo Performance

By Roger Pulvers

Tokyo Performance is set in the pre-internet age, brilliantly captures the zeitgeist of Japan at the time. In this riveting, entertaining and wholly poignant tale, a Japanese celebrity receives a phone call while live on air that will change his life forever.

Nori, a high profile Tokyo-based celebrity chef with

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Circle
• Release date: Nov 23, 2018
• ISBN: 9781912864034

Roger Pulvers

Helping make Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and befriending David Bowie brought Pulvers back to Japan and inspired him to become the award-winning and prolific author, playwright and film director he is today. He has published more than 50 books in Japanese and English, including novels, essays, plays, poetry and translations. And has directed a full length feature film, Star Sand, based on one of his novels.

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About the Author

Roger Pulvers

Helping make Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and befriending David Bowie brought him back to Japan and inspired him to become the award-winning and prolific author, playwright and film director he is today.

Pulvers has published more than 50 books in Japanese and English, including novels, essays, plays, poetry and translations.

Pulvers writes in English and Japanese. He penned his novel Star Sand (Hoshizuna Monogatari), which has been adapted for film, in both English and Japanese. The novel was also published in French translation in 2017. Pulvers wrote the screenplay based on the novel and directed the film, his first full-length feature film, which was released nationally in Japan in 2017.

Pulvers is the recipient of several literary prizes, including the Kenji Miyazawa Prize (2008) and the Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2013).

‘Roger Pulvers’ recollections of life in Japan are bound to become a part of Japan’s national heritage.’

Ryuichi Sakamoto, musician and composer

‘By ingeniously blending TV narration with a stark and revealing stream of consciousness, Pulvers’ Tokyo Performance connects you with the moment while highlighting the bizarre polarity of celebrity, arrogance and decay.’

Alex Pearl, author of Sleeping with the Blackbirds

‘Few Japanese intellectuals have absorbed Japanese culture to the extent that Pulvers has. If there were no Pulvers, Japan would be a much less interesting country!’

Seigo Matsuoka, editor, author and professor

Also by Roger Pulvers

Fiction

Star Sand

Liv

Non Fiction

If There Were No Japan: A Cultural Memoir

A full publication list of all of Pulvers’ work is available from www.redcircleauthors.com

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