The Art of Being Mr Aoki
A funny, poignant and nuanced look at what life is like for the newly arrived expat in Japan.
“A warm and funny portrait of modern Japan” (Publishers’ Digest)
This is a first-person semi-autobiographical of unforgettable heights and depths, set in the dizzying backdrop of post-bubble Tokyo.
Mr Aoki is the first person Peter Gardner meets in Japan and the last one he says goodbye to. In between, there are madcap drivers, unstable landlords, baseball-loving priests, scar faced gangsters, paralytic businessmen, obsessive schoolgirls, gag-cracking sumo wrestlers, homeless temp workers, and doctors who are dead set against the author marrying their daughter.
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