A book, of a student in 80’s Tokyo, on living a soulless, yet warm modern world — This book review also appears on the January 2021 issue of Duke University’s The Wellian Magazine. It wasn’t many decades ago when commuters in Tokyo subways would have in their hands, in place of a phone, a similarly small-sized book — a bunko-bon. The tight shelves of alleyway bookstores and…
