The Tokyo Mariachi Blues

The Tokyo Mariachi Blues... Japan's lost decade of the 1990s is set to music and settles into a nightclub where a young department store clerk stumbles on a bit a fortune that changes her life. Pushed out of her Kobe home after the devastating earthquake, she finds solace in a man with a guitar and a few spare yen spilling from the edges of the Tokyo underworld. The heavy weight of the floating world rests on her shoulders as she supports a sister struggling to enter a top flight university and employs a girl with a tattoo gun who doubles as a bar bouncer.

Author: Jon Herskovitz
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: 09/14/2013
Pages: 390
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781478704348

About the Author
Jon Herskovitz is an international corespondent who has reported from more than a dozen countries with Reuters News. He has been based in Tokyo, New York, Dallas, Seoul and Johannesburg and covered events ranging from the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center to the tsunami that tore apart the northeast coast of Japan. This is his first novel.

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