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Takeout Sushi is a collection of 17 illustrated short stories set mostly in contemporary Japan that explore feelings of belonging, displacement, and the strangeness of everyday human interaction. In an innovative, fast-paced company, a man's job comes under threat when a team of robots are brought in to replace the HR department. A husband's search for shortcuts to his domestic tasks goes painfully wrong. Overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle of Tokyo, a foreigner takes a weekend break and discovers something other than solitude in the mountains. Inspired by debut author Christopher Green's own experiences, these whimsical slice-of-life tales are full of heart and humour-perfect for fans of Convenience Store Woman and Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

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"""Smart, witty, delightful stories by a keen-eyed observer not only of contemporary Japanese life, but of life in general. Christopher Green is a talented writer we should all be reading—and hoping for more wonderful stories from in the future.""—David Joiner, author of Kanazawa *and *The Heron Catchers ""Christopher Green has a way of taking a character quirk or a weird experience and turning it into a story that clearly reveals the heart of the character involved. His prose is immensely readable.""—Steve Redford, author of Spider Lilies Bleed ""A wonderfully eclectic array of tales told with humour and heart.""—Simon Rowe, author of Mami Suzuki: Private Eye"

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Chris Green was born in Middlesborough, UK. He has also lived in South Africa, Germany and, since 1994, Japan, where he works for an IT company. He started writing shortly after moving to Japan, and one of his short stories was published in a magazine a few years later. Chris currently lives just outside of Tokyo with his wife and daughter. His hobbies include writing poor haiku in Japanese and playing darts badly-but not at the same time!

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