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Shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, Shopping is a Lolita for our times set amidst the culture clash of modern Tokyo.
Meadowlark is a lonely man. He pins portraits of the Prime Minister and the Queen to his apartment wall. Sent to work in the Tokyo office, he soon becomes lost and ill at ease in the world of besuited Englishmen who, slaves to the office by day, cruise the neonlit nightspots by night with their dispensable cash, fuelled on alcohol and the prospect of casual sex. It isn’t long before Meadowlark undergoes an eerie change that shocks his colleagues: he falls in love with a fourteen-year-old Japanese girl. Gavin Kramer’s first novel is the story of this relationship: a portrait of an obsession, a doomed love affair, an Englishman abroad and out of place, bemused and confused and ultimately beaten by an alien culture.
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Gavin Kramer was born in 1961 in North London, where he still lives. He read Law and Politics at Cambridge University and now practises as a lawyer in central London. His short stories have appeared in ‘Best Short Stories, Panurge,’ and most recently in ‘Faber First Fictions’. His first novel, ‘Shopping’, was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and won the David Higham Prize.
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Shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread First Novel Award
Winner of the 1998 David Higham Prize
Winner of the 1999 Geofrey Faber Memorial Prize
Alistair Meadowlark is an English lawyer in Tokyo who doesn't understand the strange new world around him. He's tall and gawky and his hosts similarly can't comprehend him. And then he meets Sachiko, would-be starlet, aspirant businesswoman, consummate shopper, a pocket-sized femme fatale fully plugged into the system that is slowly driving Meadowlark mad. Through the neon streets and freak shows and love hotels of Tokyo, Gavin Kramer's remarkable first novel charts this eroticised culture clash and the inevitable demise of the infatuated Meadowlark.
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London. Fourth Estate. 1999., 1999
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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, Shopping is a Lolita for our times set amidst the culture clash of modern Tokyo. Meadowlark is a lonely man. He pins portraits of the Prime Minister and the Queen to his apartment wall. Sent to work in the Tokyo office, he soon becomes lost and ill at ease in the world of besuited Englishmen who, slaves to the office by day, cruise the neonlit nightspots by night with their dispensable cash, fuelled on alcohol and the prospect of casual sex. It isnt long before Meadowlark undergoes an eerie change that shocks his colleagues: he falls in love with a fourteen-year-old Japanese girl. Gavin Kramers first novel is the story of this relationship: a portrait of an obsession, a doomed love affair, an Englishman abroad and out of place, bemused and confused and ultimately beaten by an alien culture. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Codice articolo GOR001761459
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