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050	0	0	_aPR9130.9.B87 _bZ46 2018
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100	1		_aBuruma, Ian
245	1	2	_aA Tokyo romance : _ba memoir _c/ Ian Buruma
260			_aNew York _b: Penguin Press _c, 2018
300			_a243 p. _b: illus. _c; 22 cm
520			_aA 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.
546			_aEnglish.
600	1	4	_aBuruma, Ian _x-Travel
650		4	_aAuthors, Dutch _y-20th century _x-Biography
650		4	_aTheatre _z-Japan _z-Tokyo
651		4	_aTokyo (Japan) _x-Social life and customs
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