What is loved is dreamed of. What moves the inner mechanism with passion ends up erecting the construct on which each one feels, lives and of course dreams.
This novel has much of that dream come true in the truest form of the hackneyed transition. Because every dreamer knows that the dream is not an end or an achievement, nor of course something material.
The young Czech writer Anna Cima In this novel he places us on the threshold of his dream, of his passion. And in the incredible way in which an adventurer loquaciously recounts his latest journey, Anna becomes Jana to take us from one side to the other, from imagined to real Japan, rocked in a literary sleeper dotted with dreamlike impressions.
When seventeen-year-old Jana arrives in her dream Tokyo, she wishes to stay forever. He is soon convinced of the unpredictable consequences that this can have. You will find yourself locked in the magic circle of the bustling Shibuya neighborhood.
While the young version of Jana wanders through the city, experiences extraordinary situations and finds her way back home, the twenty-four-year-old Jana studies Japanology in Prague, aspires to get a scholarship in Tokyo and, together with a fellow student, becomes breaks your head with the translation of a Japanese story.
Written in an entertaining, fresh and colloquial language, the young Japaneseologist's first novel deals with the search for a path to a different culture, the ambiguity of the real world and the trap of a dream come true.
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