Missing in Tokyo
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- 11,99 €
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- 11,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
When his older sister Charlie vanishes while traveling through Asia, seventeen-year-old Adam decides he can do more to find her than the nonchalant police and his distraught parents. Without telling his family, he boards a plane for Tokyo. He suspects Charlie may have been involved in the twilight world of bar "hostessing"-or worse. With help from new friends, especially the intriguing and beautiful Aiko, Adam prowls the town. His search ultimately leads him to Tokyo's underbelly of gangsters and drug dealers. Will he learn the truth about his sister's disappearance before it's too late?
Also available: Zoo 1-58234-991-6 pb $8.95
Reviews "The novel's strength derives from the pulsing slice of life, cut from Tokyo's neon landscape-from the tiny, stacked bedrooms of capsule hotels to the outré costumes of roving scenesters. The stranger-in-a-strange-land motif, spiked with sexy Japanophilia and British slang, should draw literate manga fans and Anglophiles alike." -Publishers Weekly
"A vividly portrayed movie of Tokyo as seen by a sophisticated young man in his late teens. ...It's a genuine teen page-turner however, and the sex, while mostly offstage, is hot. So what do you call chick-lit for boys?"-Kirkus Reviews "The plot twists and turns in this fast-paced, intriguing novel that will keep readers guessing." -School Library Journal
"Even teens who disdain youth thrillers in favor of grittier adult fare may make an exception for this noir-tinged novel." -Booklist
Featured in "Cool New Books" section, www.teenreads.com, May
Praise for Zoo:
"Fast-paced storytelling, realistic characters, and plenty of forensic science create appeal for a wide range of readers." -VOYA
"An exciting, fast-paced thriller with realistic characters and puzzling circumstances that will keep you guessing and turning the pages." -www.Teenreads.com
About the Author
Graham Marks was a designer, editor, and jour
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Charlotte, older sister of 18-year-old Adam Grey, is ostensibly taking a year off, traveling with her friend Alice. When Charlie goes missing while working in a hostess bar in Tokyo, Adam's shocked parents, already grappling with the rapid decline of his grandmother, seem to go numb. Fleeing his mother's tears, his father's "permanent mood of angry impotence" and the tightlipped local investigators, Adam withdraws funds, swipes a reserve credit card from his father's drawer and flies from Britain to Tokyo to find Charlie himself. Roughly the last two-thirds of Marks's (Zoo) novel unfold as an anxious, third-person travelogue, describing a gritty mix of working-class expats, yakuza gangsters and hip Japanese teens enthralled with Adam's blonde hair. As he falls for and sleeps with Aiko (a smart, scooter-driving beauty), Adam questions everything from Alice's motives in reporting Charlie's disappearance, to his loyalty to his British girlfriend. Teens expecting a denouement equivalent to the ratcheting suspense of Adam's mission might feel slightly let down (Charlie has apparently simply absconded with Alice's boyfriend). Instead, the novel's strength derives from the pulsing slice of life, cut from Tokyo's neon landscape from the tiny, stacked bedrooms of capsule hotels to the outr costumes of roving scenesters. The stranger-in-a-strange-land motif, spiked with sexy Japanophilia and British slang, should draw literate manga fans and Anglophiles alike. Ages 12-up.
