Escape from Amsterdam

Escape from Amsterdam

Barrie Sherwood
Our Price:  £3.99
List Price:  £9.99
Saving Of:  60%

Availability:  

  

In stock

Author:  Barrie Sherwood
Condition:  New
Format:  Paperback
Pages:  208
Publisher:  Granta Books
Year:  2007
ISBN:  9781862079588

Aozora - idle university student, future crooked bureaucrat, fresh broken heart - has been playing too much mah-jong and now he's deep in debt. When Auntie Okane dies and leaves him and his sister Mai a priceless inheritance, he thinks his problems are solved. But they're only just beginning. Mai's disappeared and he can't get the cash without her. So begins a fast-paced adventure that takes Aozora to the deep south of Japan and the surreal environs of a Dutch theme park called Amsterdam. It sounds like a holiday, but Aozora is about to enter the real world...Featuring yakuza gangsters, motorcycle gangs, a phoney princess, a genuine rice farmer, tetrapods, topiary dinosaurs, pre-digested coffee, high-tech love dolls, Aozora's own photographs and a selection of Japanese manga, "Escape from Amsterdam" is playful, offbeat, and funny. It paints an unsettling portrait of contemporary Japan and introduces a strikingly original and inventive writer.

You may also like
Escape Room: Can You Escape the Video Game?
Dr Gareth Moore
Condition: New
£16.99   £8.99

An interactive, at-home puzzle experience inspired by escape rooms. You're trapped inside a video game! You've got to use content from the book and the separate die-cut pages, and work out how to solve the puzzles for yourself by experimenting, just like an escape room.


Amsterdam
Christopher Catling
Condition: New
£9.99   £2.99

Educational Studies in Europe: Amsterdam and Berlin Compared
Condition: New
£2.49

Presents the results of increasing cooperation between the education departments of Berlin, Amsterdam, and London universities, examining the cultural and socio-political differences of the educational sciences and looking at the educational consequences of both globalizing and pluralist development