The Tokyo Night - Couverture souple

Kross, J.S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798181456600

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

For thirty years, Yassuda has been the voice in the dark.
Every night from three to five, on a dying AM station, he takes the calls no one else will hear — the nurse's wife sending a song to a husband who will never hear it, the salaryman who keeps missing the last train home, the widow who asks for Wagner among the love songs, the convenience-store worker phoning a country she can't afford to miss out loud. He plays their requests into the night and never sees a single face. That is the whole arrangement, and the whole dignity of it.
Then the station is sold. The overnight hours are going to automation — seamless, curated, without a voice. On his final broadcast, instead of playing the last request, Yassuda does the one thing thirty years taught him never to do: he lets the silence run. And when the microphone goes dark, he walks out into the waking city to find, at last, the people he has only ever heard — down through the night-shift wards, up through the lonely towers, toward the one door he will choose not to knock on.
A spare, luminous novel about the difference between being heard and being listened to — about the love we send into the dark not knowing if it lands, and the quiet courage of the song left unplayed.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798181456600
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 212
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