"A bizarre manga, a post-modern comedy of manners full of withering insights into contemporary Japan."
—Joseph Lapenta in The Japan Times

“A satire on Tokyo night life . . . like a fugue in that the characters are interwoven by their constant changing of partners."
—John Haylock in London Magazine

“A witty short novel about nightlife in Tokyo . . . perhaps no other author could have written about it in quite this way."
—David Burleigh in The Mainichi Daily News

“The tension between the neutral style and the maddening characters creates the real drama of the novel . . . repetition and humor make of a programmed text a dizzying experience."
—Arturo Silva in Tokyo Journal

“It is Richie's unswerving commitment to make it only too plain what these sorts of people do say (and don't say) to each other that makes the novel so suffocatingly authentic."
—William March in Intersect

Donald Richie is best known as the foremost Western authority on Japanese cinema – his latest work is A Hundred Years of Japanese FIlm. He has also written about many other aspects of the country and its people. His books include The Inland Sea and Public People, Private People.

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