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Wrong About Japan

A Father's Journey With His Son

By Peter Carey

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| Paperback | 9781400078363

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Previous winner of two Booker Prizes, Peter Carey expands his extraordinary achievement with each new novel — but now gives us something entirely different.

When famously shy Charley Carey becomes obsessed with Japanese manga and anime, Peter is not only delighted for his son, but entrContinue

Previous winner of two Booker Prizes, Peter Carey expands his extraordinary achievement with each new novel — but now gives us something entirely different.

When famously shy Charley Carey becomes obsessed with Japanese manga and anime, Peter is not only delighted for his son, but entranced himself. Thus, with a father sharing his twelve-year-old’s exotic comic books, begins a journey that will lead them both to Tokyo, where a strange Japanese boy will become both their guide and judge. The visitors quickly plunge deep into the lanes of Shitimachi — into the “weird stuff” of modern Japan — meeting manga artists and anime directors, “visualists” who painstakingly impersonate cartoons, and solitary “otakus” who lead a computerized existence. What emerges from these encounters is a pithy, far-ranging study of history and culture both high and low — from samurai to salaryman, from kabuki theatre to the post-war robot craze. Peter Carey’s observations are provocative, even though his hosts often point out, politely, that he is wrong about Japan. In adventures that are comic, surprising, and ultimately moving, father and son cope with and learn from each other in a place far from home.


“No Real Japan,” said Charley. “You’ve got to promise. No temples. No museums.”

“What could we do?”

“We could buy cool manga.”

“There’ll be no English translations.”

“I don’t care. I’d eat raw fish.”

—excerpt from Wrong About Japan


From the Hardcover edition.

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  • Stuffu happens

    Wrong About Japan: A Father's Journey With His Son by Peter Carey 124pp, Faber, £12.99 In his remarkable book The Art of Travel (1855) Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton noted that "In Napoleon's retreat, after his campaign in Russia, many a sold ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • It was full of Eastern promise...

    Wrong about Japan: A Father's Journey with his Son Peter Carey Faber £12.99, pp176 This is an odd, unnecessary little book - an unmemorable memento of a brief trip Peter Carey made to Tokyo two years ago with his pubescent son. The jaunt was meant to ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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