Synopsis
In Tokyo Tempos, award-winning mystery writer Michael Pronko explores the mystery of everyday Tokyo life. He draws on his thirty years of living, writing, and teaching in Japan to delve into what it’s like to live with Japanese food, seasons, ceremonies, rules, and trains.
The pithy, pointed writings in Tokyo Tempos offer a reminder of how even huge cities like Tokyo live and breathe with the loves, hopes, pleasures, and puzzling meanings of the people who live there.
Author Bio
Michael Pronko is a Tokyo-based writer of murder, memoir, and music. He’s published six novels in the award-winning Detective Hiroshi series, and three books of short writings about Tokyo life. Michael grew up in Kansas City, studied philosophy at Brown University, and then traveled for years, teaching in Beijing, finishing an MA in Education and another in Comp Lit before completing his Ph.D. on film adaptations of Charles Dickens. As a professor of American Literature at Meiji Gakuin University, he teaches seminars on contemporary novels, film, and culture. Michael runs the website, Jazz in Japan, which covers the jazz scene in Tokyo. During his 20-plus years in Japan, he has written about Japanese culture, art, society, and politics for Newsweek Japan, The Japan Times, and Artscape Japan. He has appeared on NHK TV and Nippon Television.
