The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

  Fiction/Literature/978-0-375-72467-1

  WRONG ABOUT JAPAN

  When Peter Carey offered to take his son to Japan, twelve-year-old Charley stipulated no temples or museums. He wanted to see manga, anime, and cool, weird stuff. His father said yes. Out of that bargain comes this enchanting tour of the mansion of Japanese culture, as entered through its garish, brightly lit back door. Funny, surprising, distinguished by its wonderfully nuanced portrait of a father and son thousands of miles from home, Wrong About Japan is a delight.

  Travel/978-1-4000-7836-3

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  FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, FEBRUARY 1996

  Copyright © 1994 by Peter Carey

  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Great Britain in hardcover by Faber and Faber Limited, London, in 1994. First published in the United States in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York in 1995.

  The Library of Congress has cataloged

  the Knopf edition as follows:

  eISBN: 978-0-307-76428-7

  LC 94-078479

  Author photograph © Craig Voevodin

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