Query: Books about Tokyo excluding Japanese-language books
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Number9dream
Tuvalu (novel)
Shopping (novel)
Tokyo (novel)
Tokyo: A View of the City
1945 (Conroy novel)
The Runaway Bride (novel)
Bicycle Days
The Earthquake Bird
Gaku Stories
Tokyo Vice
Tokyo Fiancée
Ghostwritten
A Tale for the Time Being
Evidence from documents: Number9dream: Books about Tokyo excluding Japanese-language books: '''''number9dream''''' is the second novel by English author David Mitchell. Set in Japan, the 2001 novel narrates 19-year-old Eiji Miyake's search for his father, whom he has never met
Tokyo excluding Japanese-language books: iji waits inside a café in front of the Panopticon building in Tokyo. Akiko Kato, his father's lawyer, works in the building
Tuvalu (novel): The novel is set mostly in Tokyo and tells the story of a young Australian teacher of English, and his relationship with two women, Tilly, another Australian English teacher, and Mami, a Japanese hotel heiress. It is told in first-person.
Shopping (novel): '''''Shopping''''' is the debut novel by British author Gavin Kramer published in 1998 by Fourth Estate, it won the David Higham Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and was short-listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award.
Tall, awkward Meadowlark, an English lawyer is determined to make a success of his two-year assignment in Tokyo. He appears dull, infallible and incorruptible; immune to the temptations of the Roppongi nightlife. But then he meets Sachiko, a fashion obsessed teenager who leads him on an expensive buying spree. Eventually Sachiko meets a richer sponsor and Meadowlark falls apart...
Tokyo (novel): The story is about a young woman (nicknamed 'Grey' by a fellow mental hospital patient) who is obsessed with the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking, also known as the Rape of Nanking. She travels to Japan in order to find a professor said to have rare footage of the massacre detailing an event that she could not otherwise prove occurred.
Tokyo: A View of the City: It is his description of Tokyo geographically and also describing his experiences over the decades of life he spent there.
1945 (Conroy novel): '''''1945''''' is an alternate history novel by Michigan economics professor Robert Conroy, an author of alternate history novels, such as ''1901'' and ''1862''. It was first published in trade paperback and ebook form by Ballantine Books in May 2007. In the novel's point of divergence, the Kyūjō coup overthrew Japanese Emperor Hirohito and so World War II resumed until 1946.
On the night of August 14–15, 1945, following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, a battalion of rogue Imperial Japanese Army officers and troops led by Major Kenji Hatanaka seize the Imperial Palace to prevent the surrender of Japan. They persuade the war minister, General Korechika Anami, to join the coup and gain the support from the rest of the Japanese military. Rather than staying loyal to Emperor Hirohito, as in actual history, Anami orders the imprisonment of Hirohito and establishes himself as the ''de facto'' dictator of Japan.
The Earthquake Bird: The story opens in a Tokyo police station where 34-year-old Lucy Fly is being questioned over the murder of her friend and fellow British expatriate Lily Bridges.
Gaku Stories: The main setting of the novel is Kodaira, Tokyo.
Tokyo Vice: '''''Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan''''' is a 2009 memoir by Jake Adelstein of his years living in Tokyo as the first non-Japanese reporter working for one of Japan's largest newspapers, ''Yomiuri Shinbun''.
Tokyo Fiancée: An autobiographical novel, ''Tokyo Fiancée'' describes a romance that a 21-year-old Belgian woman Amélie had with a young Japanese man in Tokyo, when she was tutoring him in French language.
Ghostwritten: Books about Tokyo: ''Ghostwritten'' is the product of a number of influences, particularly from East Asian culture and superstition, as well as real events remodelled for plot purposes (e.g. the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway).
excluding Japanese-language books: '''''Ghostwritten''''' is the first novel published by English author David Mitchell.
A Tale for the Time Being: Nao, a second generation Japanese American and native California girl experiences the pain and discomfort of being uprooted from her home in Silicon Valley after her father loses his job, prompting her family to move back to Tokyo.