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Seasons in the East

Seasons in the East


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Welcome to Japan. A country of misfits, otakus, desperate housewives and businessmen on the edge. This is a collection of stories set around the changing seasons in Japan. A bored housewife contemplates self harm; a love doll obsessed otaku decides that true love is all that matters; a businessmen finds that his overnight stay in a hotel is more than the mundane and two teenage friends contemplate life and existence as the onset of a cold Japanese winter threatens to tear their friendship apart. This eclectic collection reveals the underbelly of Japanese society and culture, showing a different side to the land of the rising sun that you won't see portrayed in Geisha epics and wacky gameshows.
About the Author: My stories are inspired by all sorts of things; the places I've been, the movies I've watched, but most of all by the work of other authors. The authors who I admire, are people like Ryu and Haruki Murakami, as well as other Japanese writers such as Taskeshi Yamada. I also have a long-standing love for Stephen King and also take inspiration from writers like Mark Billingham. His writing style in particular was a big inspiration for one of the novels I wrote, called 'Harbouring the Dead'. I have been heavily influenced by the time I spent living in Japan, which is where I got the ideas for all the short stories in Seasons in the East. The country is such a mix of cultures and styles that I found it fascinating to explore the different facets in my writing. It has also served as inspiration for my new trilogy of children's books, called 'Oni'. I've been writing since I was eight years old, when I finished my first novel, a fantasy novel very much in the vein of C S Lewis. My aspiration now is to start getting the stories that I've written out to other people to see what they think and hopefully provide some entertainment!


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781491239599
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 214
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 340 gr
  • ISBN-10: 149123959X
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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