Angry white pyjamas

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In ‘Angry White Pyjamas’ Robert Twigger blends the ancient with the modern – the ultra-traditionalism, ritual and violence of the dojo with the shopping malls and scenes of everyday life in Tokyo to portray the bizarre nature of contemporary Japan.

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A brilliant and captivating insight into the bizarre nature of contemporary Japan.

Adrift in Tokyo, teaching giggling Japanese highschool girls how to pronounce Tennyson correctly, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: he’d never been fit. In a bid to escape the cockroach infestation and sweaty squalor of a cramped apartment in Fuji Heights, Twigger sets out to cleanse his body and his mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow the author is sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts, and the brutally demanding course of budo training taken by the Tokyo Riot Police, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against blood-stained dogis and fractured collarbones.

In Angry White Pyjamas Robert Twigger skilfully blends the ancient with the modern – the ultra-traditionalism, ritual and violence of the dojo (training academy) with the shopping malls, nightclubs and scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the twenty-first century – to provide an entertaining and captivating glimpse of contemporary Japan.

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Weight 0.26 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.8 × 2.2 cm
Book_author

Twigger, Robert

Publisher

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Imprint

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Cover

Paperback

Pages

316

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

952.049092 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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