Speed Tribes: Days and Nights With Japan's Next Generation - Hardcover

Greenfeld, Karl Taro

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060170395 ISBN 13: 9780060170394

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1994

Synopsis

A thought-provoking and disturbing study of the dark side of urban Japan focuses on the sometimes violent subcultures that exist, from the gangsters who control the drug industry and pornographers to far-right proponents of ultranationalism

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Review:

"A grippingly fresh portrait of an unseen country...As faces and stories accumulate like mosaic tiles, Japan's netherworld emerges with almost unbelievable vividness.""--Washington Post Book World"

About the Author:

Karl Taro Greenfeld is the author of seven previous books, including the novel Triburbia and the acclaimed memoir Boy Alone. His award-winning writing has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Best American Short Stories 2009 and 2013, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012. Born in Kobe, Japan, he has lived in Paris, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, and currently lives in Pacific Palisades, California, with his wife, Silka, and their daughters, Esmee and Lola.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0060170395
• ISBN 13: 9780060170394
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1