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Trading flesh in Tokyo: nine short stories and a play
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This is a small collection of nine delightful stories and a play. The stories deal with love, poverty, crime, passion and various troubling social issues. The characters in the play are powerful non-humans who are familiar to all of us.
In ‘The Stars Are My Witness’, an Indian scientist based in Thailand refuses international awards for mysterious reasons. Will he refuse the Nobel Prize too? In ‘The Price of Revolution’, an Indian revolutionary discovers that in his absence his girlfriend has developed other passions. ‘The End of an English Friendship’ touches upon the fragility of human relationships. In ‘The Magnate’s Magnet’, a Chinese billionaire remembers the day his fortunes turned. Other stories explore terrible secrets, such as in ‘Like Two Fingers Entwined’, where an Indian girl loses her virginity with consequences for a close friendship. In ‘Kubla Khan Smoking a Reefer’, an aspiring English poet smokes cannabis in Kathmandu with unexpected results. In ‘The Princess Who Would be King’, a young princess rebels against the norms of her society. In ‘Trading Flesh in Tokyo’, an ageing American-Indian publishing executive falls in love with a young Japanese girl, but there are weighty issues that need to be resolved. In ‘Sex and the Seety’, Raju, a small-town boy, befriends an English girl, and they end up teaching each other different skills. Finally, there is ‘How Madame Corona Was Introduced to the World’, a modern parable written in the form of a play.
In ‘The Stars Are My Witness’, an Indian scientist based in Thailand refuses international awards for mysterious reasons. Will he refuse the Nobel Prize too? In ‘The Price of Revolution’, an Indian revolutionary discovers that in his absence his girlfriend has developed other passions. ‘The End of an English Friendship’ touches upon the fragility of human relationships. In ‘The Magnate’s Magnet’, a Chinese billionaire remembers the day his fortunes turned. Other stories explore terrible secrets, such as in ‘Like Two Fingers Entwined’, where an Indian girl loses her virginity with consequences for a close friendship. In ‘Kubla Khan Smoking a Reefer’, an aspiring English poet smokes cannabis in Kathmandu with unexpected results. In ‘The Princess Who Would be King’, a young princess rebels against the norms of her society. In ‘Trading Flesh in Tokyo’, an ageing American-Indian publishing executive falls in love with a young Japanese girl, but there are weighty issues that need to be resolved. In ‘Sex and the Seety’, Raju, a small-town boy, befriends an English girl, and they end up teaching each other different skills. Finally, there is ‘How Madame Corona Was Introduced to the World’, a modern parable written in the form of a play.
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“This book has the dynamic variations of stories that talks about intense topics. Each and Every story has the intrigue message to the readers.
This story covers with the form of happiness, sadness, sexual, cultural driven and human nature of falling into relationships and all.
while reading the book, I got chills, literally each story is the book is so good and well written.
Author, written every story with immense plot and the topics that usually don't have any talks and hidden truth in the society.
Author written those stories that are set in India as well as other nations like, London, and our neighbor countries such as Nepal, japan ( the story that has title of the book, trading flesh in Tokyo) which has the topics of cultural differences and discriminations policies and all.
Most of stories in this book holds the social issues and individual thoughts of receiving an award from another nations and all.
The plot line of the story is fast and as I said before, this is the collections of short stories, if you guys likes to read short stories, then, you must go for this book, without giving a second thought. One good for me. I like that, author written mixed emotions of human face in daily life, such as, love, poor, financial crisis, relationships and all those things, that are included in these stories.”
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