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Tokyo, by Dan Ryan


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It was a little like the scenario in that Kinks song “Lola”, but only in passing. I met her in a little place called Seoul Bar, which is in a rundown section of northeast Tokyo called Sanya. At first I thought her was a him, and she sounded like a man but…


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The lipstick should have given me a clue, but it was confusing initially, even more so because his...

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Average rating: 3.85 · 2,834 ratings · 464 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
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One of the saddest books I've ever read and impossible to forget. It really is a book about human trafficking in many ways and deeply disturbing. It's fiction that has so much truth in it that it's overpowering. I almost wish I hadn't read it.
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“Sometimes in the mountains the animals make paths by using the same route again and again. If you don't know what you're doing, you might think it's a path made by humans--it looks that way. If you follow that path, the path of beasts, you won't get anywhere at all. People lost in the wilderness, they follow these paths and only get more and more lost. Sometimes they lose their way and they die. It's not a path for humans, it's a dangerous diversion. Are you sure that's the road you want to take? It won't get you where you want to go.”
Jake Adelstein

“You develop a kind of admiration for criminal genius and ruthless efficiency, and you forget that the criminal empire is built on human pain and suffering.”
Jake Adelstein, Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

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