What we’re about
Join us for lively book discussion in Central Tokyo.
Fiction and non-fiction books and great chat with a friendly crowd!
We usually meet in a pub in Ebisu but occasionally we meet in Osaki.
We will have read the book, or at least most of it, before we come along and most people contribute their opinions and thoughts on the book.
We have a list of questions to act as a prompt if we run out of topics.... but this is rare as we all generally have lots to say.
If the group is large, we split in to smaller groups and we discuss the book and related topics as they come up.
The pub kindly lets us book without taking a course menu or asking for a booking fee, but we do need to order drinks and there is a food menu available.
We hope you enjoy being a member.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Tokyo Ebisu Book Club - Exit West by Mohsin HamidThe FooTNiK EBISU, Tokyo
Owing to Golden Week, this month’s book meetup is on the second Monday.
Read the book (or most of It), order a drink/food at the counter and enjoy discussing with your fellow book-lovers!
We will split into groups for the discussion.
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May’s book is Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
ISBN: 978-0735212206
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This is Nadia. She is fiercely independent with an excellent sense of humour and a love of smoking alone on her balcony late at night.This is Saeed. He is sweet and shy and kind to strangers. He also has a balcony but he uses his for star-gazing.
This is their story: a love story, but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow. Saeed and Nadia are falling in love, and their city is falling apart. Here is a world in crisis and two human beings travelling through it.
Exit West is a heartfelt and radical act of hope - a novel to restore your faith in humanity and in the power of imagination.
- Shortlisted: The Man Booker Prize
- Winner: LA Times Prize for Fiction
- The Times Top 10 Bestseller
- Guardian Top 10 Bestseller
- The New York Times Top 5 Bestseller
- Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018
- Finalist for the Neustadt Prize 2018
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