A damaged young man meets an enigmatic waitress in a Tokyo cafe,and they embark on a journey that will change everything... an emotive speculative literary novel set in a near-future Japan
It's our world,but decades into the future... an ordinary world,where cars drive themselves,drones glide across the sky,and robots work in burger shops. There are two superpowers and a digital Cold War,but all conflicts are safely oceans away. People get up,work,and have dinner. Everything is as it should be...
Except for seventeen-year-old John,a tech prodigy from a damaged family,who hides a deeply personal secret. But everything starts to change for him when he enters a tiny cafe on a cold Tokyo night. A cafe run by a disgraced sumo wrestler,where a peculiar dog with a spherical head lives,alongside its owner,enigmatic waitress Neotnia...
But Neotnia hides a secret of her own - a secret that will turn John's unhappy life upside down. A secret that will take them from the neon streets of Tokyo to Hiroshima's tragic past to the snowy mountains of Nagano. A secret that reveals that this world is anything ordinary - and it's about to change forever...
Publisher: Orenda BooksISBN: 9781914585647Number of pages: 384Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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