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‘An intelligent, gripping and stylish love story set against a beautifully drawn contemporary Japan’ Observer Books of the Year

Social psychologist Ben Monroe has returned to Tokyo after a failed marriage, determined to seek out his former lover Kozue. His estranged teenage daughter Mazzy reluctantly flies from California to join him. On the flight she meets a young Japanese man, Koji, a cult survivor, who tells her the story of the luminous night princess Kaguya, a powerful tale of beauty and obsession. As Ben delves deeper into the underworld in search of Kozue, Mazzy and Koji are compelled to follow, and their four lives dangerously intersect as past and present collide.

Publisher Review

'An intelligent, gripping and stylish love story set against a beautifully drawn contemporary Japan' - Observer Books of the Year 'A fine novel' - Sebastian Faulks 'My novel of the year was Nicholas Hogg's Tokyo, which blends themes of deracination and erotic obsession to give an unforgettable portrait of the Japanese capital' - Tom Holland, Evening Standard 'Exciting and original ... If only all 'foreigner in Japan' novels were this good' - Japan Times 'Excellent ... Hogg writes with a mesmeric quality' - Big Issue 'All the ingredients of classic noir' - The Independent 'Hogg balances an engaging and pacy plot with entrancing writing in this expertly told dark fable of modern Japan' - Bookseller