02639nam a2200397 i 4500 45810 BD-DhAAL 20260519155355.0 260519t20192018nyua b 001 0aeng c 2017031389 9781101981412 9781101981436 9781101981429 (e-book) 20593986 LBSOR/DLC eng LBSOR rda DLC BD-DhAAL pcc a-ja--- PR9130.9.B87 Z46 2018 828.91403 23 Buruma, Ian, author. 60900 A Tokyo romance : a memoir / Ian Buruma. [Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Books, 2019. 243 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm Includes bibliographical references and index. "A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land : Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970's When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant land. A sensitive misfit in the world of his upper middleclass youth, what he longed for wasn't so much the exotic as the raw, unfiltered humanity he had experienced in Japanese theater performances and films, witnessed in Amsterdam and Paris. One particular theater troupe, directed by a poet of runaways, outsiders, and eccentrics, was especially alluring, more than a little frightening, and completely unforgettable. If Tokyo was anything like his plays, Buruma knew that he had to join the circus as soon as possible"-- Provided by publisher. AAL Donated by Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh, Read Japan Project 2025, The Tokyo Foundation, supported by The Nippon Foundation. 45810 Buruma, Ian Travel. 60901 Authors, Dutch 20th century Biography. 60902 Theater Japan Tokyo. 60903 Tokyo (Japan) Social life and customs 1945- 60904 Autobiographies. Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 47992 47992 0 0 ddc 0 828_914030000000000_BUR 0 79239 BRACUL BRACUL 2026-05-19 Donated by Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh, Read Japan Project 2025, The Tokyo Foundation, supported by The Nippon Foundation. 0 828.91403 BUR 3010045810 2026-05-19 1 2026-05-19 BK Donated copy received from Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh, Read Japan Project 2025, The Tokyo Foundation, supported by The Nippon Foundation on 08 April 2026; $17.00 Price available in the Book