Michael s karpa (7 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It's 1991. Gay American Conner has found refuge in Tokyo after a rough coming out. But a spectacular economic meltdown has crushed Japan's high-flying dreams, and now Tokyo is going sour for Conner, too. He's turned to crime to bail out an ex-boyfriend, he's alienating his friends and he's started sleeping with a woman. When a crime scheme goes south, he scours Tokyo's dimly lit night scene for a solution. Conner and fellow refuge-seeker Marika, who has fled a failing suburban marriage for her own big city aspirations, agree to a shady caper that may save or doom them both. As gangsters, grifters and police close in, the two must grapple with questions of crime and honesty, and to whom-and whose laws-they should be loyal.…

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Criminals. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It's 1991. Gay American Conner has found refuge in Tokyo after a rough coming out. But a spectacular economic meltdown has crushed Japan's high-flying dreams, and now Tokyo is going sour for Conner, too. He's turned to crime to bail out an ex-boyfriend, he's alienating his friends and he's started sleeping with a woman. When a crime scheme goes south, he scours Tokyo's dimly lit night scene for a solution. Conner and fellow refuge-seeker Marika, who has fled a failing suburban marriage for her own big city aspirations, agree to a shady caper that may save or doom them both. As gangsters, grifters and police close in, the two must grapple with questions of crime and honesty, and to whom-and whose laws-they should be loyal.…

Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days 133.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Living on the margins of an atmospheric Tokyo circa 1991, Conner, a 20-something gay American expatriate, smuggles a brick of hashish from Bangkok to help his lover, bar owner Arata, pay his debt to the yakuza. Conner is surprised to discover an attraction to his housemate, Katie, when she seduces him; is he bisexual, he wonders Later, he wakes up to find that Katie has stolen the hash and fled. When he tracks her down, she beats him up and gives him the slip again. He desperately tries to recoup his losses with a drug run to Hawaii on behalf of American ex-intelligence operative Paul. Along the way, Conner meets Marika, a 30-year-old Japanese bar hostess who's fleeing a stifling marriage and an awful mother-in-law. She wants to see the world, not just her confining suburb. Paul ropes Marika into the Hawaiian trip to help him with a shady real estate deal he's plotting, but she and Conner quickly recognize each other as kindred spirits and wind up in bed together, as well. When police nab Conner at the Tokyo airport, he and Marika become tangled in a web of betrayals.…

Condizione: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnMike Karpa lived in Asia for eight years, including four in Japan. His fiction, memoir and nonfiction have been published by Tin House, Foglifter Journal, Tahoma Literary Review, Oyster River Pages and a number of other ma.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Criminals | Michael S Karpa | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2021 | Mumblers Press LLC | EAN 9781736244418 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.