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Ebook About “Tokyo is as complex as a long novel, as confusing as an avant-garde film and, sometimes, as strikingly beautiful as calligraphy.”Part memoir, part travelogue, and part culture guide, Beauty and Chaos taps into the daily mysteries and poignant moments that make living in Tokyo a baffling delight. After two-plus decades writing, teaching, and living in Tokyo, American novelist and literature professor, Michael Pronko, reveals what’s beneath the gleaming, puzzling exteriors of the biggest city in the world. Whether contemplating Tokyo’s bonsai houses, pachinko parlors, chopstick ballet, or the perilous habit of running for trains, Pronko explores Tokyo’s back alleys and curious interactions to find the city’s deeper meanings and daily pleasures. Tokyo emerges a fascinating city full of chaotic commotion and serene beauty—one of the most amazing, confusing places in the world.Gold Award eLit Awards for Essays/Creative Non-FictionGold Award Non-Fiction Author’s AssociationGold Award First Place Reader’s Favorite for Cultural Non-FictionBest Nonfiction Books of 2015 Doing Dewey“A clear-eyed but affectionate portrait of a city that reaches beyond simple stereotypes. An elegantly written, precisely observed portrait of a Japanese city and its culture.” Kirkus ReviewsMore at: www.michaelpronko.comBook Beauty and Chaos (Tokyo Moments Book 1) Review :
Americans of a certain age are familiar with Japanese products, especially its automobiles. Further, they eat in Japanese restaurants and occasionally watch a Japanese movie. And last summer, the lucky among them went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where they enjoyed its wonderful show on the traditions and evolution of the Japanese kimono. At the same time, many of these Americans have never been to Japan and have no real feel for the granularity and complexity of its culture. Yes, they have a rudimentary, mostly commercial, interface with the country. But they are clueless about how its culture actually operates.Those seeking to rectify such an experiential deficiency might consider reading BEAUTY AND CHAOS: SLICES AND MORSELS OF TOKYO LIFE. Its author, Michael Pronko, is a Brown graduate, jazz lover, and close observer who has lived and taught at university in Tokyo for 15 years. And in this book’s 46 feuilletons, he offers such interesting observations as:o Its [Tokyo’s] logic, if there is one, is hidden deep. Yet, on maps, the city seems to make perfect sense. The jangled, frazzling chaos of the city appears neat and ordered. All is connected; all is positioned. The gargantuan proportions of the city can be taken in at a glance. Maps allow us to step back from time to time with welcome two-dimensional abstraction. (No Space Left Unmapped)o Entering into the interior of another space, public as it is, means entering into a whole realm of conventions and obligations. The mere task of ordering an ice coffee sometimes just seems too much. Vending machines remain entirely outside of all social engagement… Simple and satisfying, they sanction anonymity. (Automatic Tea Ceremony)o During bonenkai season, everyone in Tokyo suddenly relaxes. Something like Mardi Gras, bonenkai is a collective social catharsis… Like the flu, bonenkai spirit spreads through the city. Japan, perhaps the quietest nation on earth, becomes roaringly loud. Restaurants are deafening. People leap out of their seats, shouting, laughing, carousing, and making more noise than they have all year, as if there were a budget of noise, like for road repair, that if not spent, would be lost. (The Nosiest Time of the Year)o … the actions of polite exchange remind us to be grateful, attentive, and aware. Similarly, when change is given, a bow is made, a moment’s stillness offered, all is returned to a comfortable balance, as if even small change somehow partakes of the life force of the entire monetary system and deserves its own respect. (The Delicate Ritual of Small Change)BEAUTY AND CHAOS is not quite a five-star read. Here, I put on my editor’s hat and say the book might have been, well, more diverse if Pronko had presented more interaction with individual Tokyoites in his essays. Yes, these feuilletons were first published in Newsweek Japan, where they were popular reading. Still, my unwanted editorial advice is: Once in a while, start a chapter with a local character that refutes or confirms a cultural stereotype. Then, throw in some apt political or historical stuff. Finally, end the chapter with another character who offers a different take on the issues raised in the chapter. The grumpy Paul Theroux, after all, has used this technique to build a great career. And it helps him rise from merely articulate, to memorable, commentary.Regardless, this is a fine book of essays. And I’ll reread when I finally take that vacation in Japan. Recommended. Those readers with even the slightest connections to Japan (or none at all) will find Michael Pronko’s vignettes about life in modern day Tokyo fascinating. I know that I have. “Beauty and Chaos: Slices and Morsels of Tokyo Life” is the first of three volumes of Pronko’s magazine columns published for the first time in his native English.For nearly two decades, Michael Pronko—an American—has taught literature, art and related subjects to his eager students at Meiji Gakuin University while spending his off hours exploring the never-ending mysteries of the world’s largest city: Tokyo. He has been a contributor of many of Japan’s leading magazines where the columns which make up this book were first printed.Whether it be fashion, architecture, daily life, cultural differences, cuisine, transportation, communication or the unique shops one encounters no matter where they travel in Tokyo, you will be drawn into the same depths of curiosity and wonder as Professor Pronko experiences every day of his life in that great city which inspires both belief and disbelief in equal portions. It was a little over 50 years ago that I first wandered the streets and alleyways of Tokyo and discovered a tiny bit of that great city's beauty and mystery. I've never forgotten that experience. Thanks, Professor Pronko for rekindling the memories. Things have changed, of course, in that half century. Kids didn't navigate via GPS units. There were no cell phones and Japanese-American relations were still evolving after the great war that devastated both our nations but Tokyo was and still is magnificent. I highly recommend all of Pronko's works to those who know Tokyo and even to those who have yet to discover it. 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