The floating world
By: Cynthia Gralla
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780345452917
Subjects: Fiction; Americans; Sex-oriented businesses; Japanese Psychological fiction; Women
Description: "Liza leaves her Ivy League life behind and escapes to Tokyo, a place where art, politics, and sex seep into each other, and the irradiated ghosts of World War II pulse beneath the neon nightlife. She intends to study butoh, otherwise known as the dance of utter darkness, with master teacher Oshima Kenzo.

While working in one of Tokyo's infamous hostess bars, Liza meets the mysterious Maboroshi, leader of the maiko, a group of neophyte geisha whose expression is as violent as the dance of utter darkness itself. Liza's journey culminates in the discovery of the most exclusive restaurant in Japan, where men eat intricate delicacies directly off a naked human body. Descending into this midnight underworld, Liza becomes fragmented, delicate, lost: a stranger in her own skin."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Serving Bodies --; title: Secret Places --; title: A Lighter Dance --; title: The Floating Chapter: Ending --; title: Multiplied Indefinitely --; title: The Concourse of Angels --; title: The Art of the Outsider --; title: The Floating Chapter: Continuing --; title: Slit Kimono --; title: Selling Spring --; title: Broken --; title: The Floating Chapter: Relentless --; title: Tenebrae --; title: Half-life --; title: Desire --; title: The Floating Chapter: Beginning.