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THE CHARTER IBD

ROGER PULVERS
BALESTIER PRESS
09 / 2020
9781911221845
Inglés

Sinopsis

Roger Pulvers has been writing fiction set in Japan for over fifty years. Now, for the first time, a collection of his very best short stories has been brought together in a single volume. Some of these stories, like the one that gives the collection its title, The Charter tells the story of a man who has chartered a boat on TokyoâÇÖs Sumida River. He is celebrating his eightieth birthday and has invited his entire family to celebrate with him. But, curiously, it is a little girl engaging with him on the deck who comes to symbolize the real love that seems absent in his âÇÖloved onesâÇÖ. The two make a promise to each other there and then that represents another kind of âÇÖcharterâÇÖ.The great variety of characters encountered in these poignant and often highly humourous stories include a little boy who, it seems, will stop at nothing to get his feuding parents together again, a young woman who reconnects with an ancestor and finds love in the process, a beautiful Japanese singer who goes to Las Vegas to make it big time, a Japanese salaryman who, on an impulse, travels to Holland in search of Vermeer and loses himself instead, a naûve American who falls for a young Japanese woman, only to have to witness her modelling in the nude for a dissolute artist he despises, two young women - one Japanese, the other Indonesian - who discover that they have the same father ... and other colourful characters that give great insight into contemporary Japanese life.á