Books : Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries

Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries

View Shopping Cart or Checkout

Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries

by: Tim Anderson

List Price: $14.95

Amazon.com's Price: $8.97

You Save: $5.98 (40%)
as of 05/25/2012 15:28 EDT

Used Price: $3.70
Third Party New Price: $4.60

Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.

Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781612181318
ISBN: 1612181317
Label: AmazonEncore
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: AmazonEncore
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 292
Publication Date: November 29, 2011
Publisher: AmazonEncore
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Studio: AmazonEncore

Related Items:

Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Everyone wants to escape their boring, stagnant lives full of inertia and regret. But so few people actually have the bravery to run -- run away from everything and selflessly seek out personal fulfillment on the other side of the world where they don't understand anything and won't be expected to. The world is full of cowards. Tim Anderson was pushing thirty and working a string of dead-end jobs when he made the spontaneous decision to pack his bags and move to Japan, “where my status as a U.S. passport holder and card-carrying ‘American English’ speaker was an asset rather than a liability.” It was a gutsy move, especially for a tall, white, gay Southerner who didn’t speak a lick of Japanese. But his life desperately needed a shot of adrenaline, and what better way to get one than to leave behind everything he had ever known to move to “a tiny, overcrowded island heaving with clever, sensibly proportioned people that make him look fat?” In Tokyo, Tim became a “gaijin,” an outsider whose stumbling progression through Japanese culture is minutely chronicled in these sixteen howlingly funny stories. Yet despite the steep learning curve and the seemingly constant humiliation, the gaijin from North Carolina gradually begins to find his way. Whether playing drums on the fly in an otherwise all-Japanese noise band or attempting to keep his English classroom clean when it’s invaded by an older female student with a dirty mind, Tim comes to realize that living a meaningful life is about expecting the unexpected…right when he least expects it.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: none

Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display

Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

Abraham, Adam, David, Isaac, Job, Joseph, Judith, Moses

Informative site dedictated to god, religion and ethics

Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries

Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries

Books by Joseph Ratzinger

Catholic Books

Books about Jesus

Books about Orthodoxy

Books about Mormonism

Books about Evangelism

Books about Protestantism

Books about Buddhism