In the Miso Soup Condition:Well Read and cricket on the village

and cricket on the village green

He thinks himself surrounded by idiots—neighbours who can't reverse a trailer properly

and just hope her memories gradually come back

governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and bizarre codes of behavior

authors John Wood and Amalia McGibbon show once and for all that cause is not the enemy of commercialism

In the Miso Soup Condition:Well Read and cricket on the villageIt's just before New Year. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife on three successive evenings. But Frank's behaviour is so strange that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible that his client may be in fact the killer currently terrorizing the city. Kenji is a likeable, if far from innocent guide, leading the reader through the inferno of violence and evil into which he apparently