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SOLUTION 214 – 238 The Book of Japans

Artist
Momus
Date
2011
Publisher
Sternberg Press
Format
Artists' Books
Details
Softcover
ISBN
978-1-934105-24-5
Size
11.5 × 17.5 × 1.5 cm
Length
192 
Description

Yet another archly funny fantasy in Ingo Niermann’s endlessly inventive Solution Series, this nippophile tale is written by Scottish-born, Japan-based creative genius Momus, otherwise known as songwriter Nick Currie. Following the success of the pair’s The Book of Scotlands (shortlisted for the Scottish Arts Council’s First Book prize), this book makes a case for the rehabilitation of the idea of the “far.” We live in a time when difference and distance have been eroded and eradicated by globalization, the Internet, and cheap jet travel. The Book of Japans restores a sense of wonder – along with a plethora of imagination-triggering inaccuracies – by taking the reader on a trip not just through space but also time.


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