A hauntingly original book about Tokyo and the Japanese relationship to time, memory and history, seen through the eyes of an outsider, searching for the past that underlies the city's arrestingly visible present.
Olivia Laing, prize-winning, bestselling author of The Lonely City and Crudo, returns with a career-spanning collection of essays on the power of art in times of crisis.
`A political book in the best sense - helping us to imagine a better world, reminding us that ideas shape how we live and plotting a better future for London . . . full of intriguing facts, always beautifully written . . . Rowan Moore should be Mayor' Alain De Botton