Tokyo

"Tokyo is a city that runs on rules you don't quite see, and breaks them in ways you don't quite expect. When Anna reconnects with her childhood friend Tsubasa after years apart, their conversations become a way into the city itself: its unspoken codes, its quiet contradictions, its peculiar logic. Viewed from afar, then up close, Tokyo unfolds in telling fragments: how sleeping during a business meeting can signal your commitment; how politeness conceals an entire world of meaning; how vastness can give way, without warning, to intimacy. By turns funny, tender, and disorienting, this is a portrait of Tokyo as experienced by an outsider determined to understand it-and a reminder that the closer you get, the more it will resist. Can Tokyo be completely known, or only learned piecemeal? This book argues for the latter-and makes the process irresistible"--