Tokyo Tempos

<p>In <em>Tokyo Tempos</em> award-winning mystery writer Michael Pronko explores the mystery of everyday Tokyo life. Drawing on three decades of living writing and teaching in Japan he delves into Tokyo's dynamism to show what it's like living with Japanese food seasons ceremonies and special moments he calls small intensities.</p><p></p><p>These pithy pointed writings reveal how even massive cities like Tokyo live and breathe with the loves hopes pleasures and meanings of the people who live there. These personal and philosophical explorations part travelogue and part analysis paint a vivid portrait of the city rich with curiosity and insight. </p><p></p><p>Join Pronko on his journey into the contradictions intricacies and enigmas of Tokyo a city that is old and new immense and intimate indifferent and yet very humane. Independent Book Review called the essays A medley of vignettes that are as eclectic as they are eloquent. Authentic and immersive <em>Tokyo Tempos</em> takes readers deep into the compelling rhythms of Tokyo life. </p><p></p><p><em>Tokyo Tempos</em> is the fourth in the Tokyo Moments Series. More on the other books in the series: </p><p></p><p><em>Motions and Moments</em></p><p>Pronko takes the sweeping size bustle and chaos of Tokyo and makes it small introspective and personal. <em>Independent Publisher</em></p><p></p><p><em>Tokyo's Mystery Deepens </em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A rare glimpse of the structure and nature of Tokyo's underlying psyche. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Midwest Book Review</em></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Beauty and Chaos </em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>An elegantly written precisely observed portrait of a Japanese city and its culture. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Kirkus Reviews</em></p><p></p><p>As for the Detective Hiroshi series set in Tokyo: If there's a better crime series set in Japan I've not yet read it. <em>Crime Thriller Hound</em></p><p></p><p>The city of Tokyo is very much a character in its own right. It's not the tourist hotspots we see but the real city with the food and drink which the locals consume. It's glorious. <em>The Bookbag </em>review of <em>Tokyo Traffic</em>.</p><p></p><p><em>BookLife Review</em> wrote that Pronko's sixth novel <em>Shitamachi Scam</em> does as good a job of taking us on a trip through Tokyo as Simenon does through Inspector Maigret's Paris. </p><p></p><p>So join Pronko on an enlightening non-fictional trip through Tokyo in the Tokyo Moments Series. </p><p></p>