Mr Foreigner - Tapa blanda

Daniel Thayne, a young Englishman, finds himself trapped in Tokyo. His passport lost, he’s working illegally in a ramshackle language school, and his boss refuses to pay his salary. He’s in a dead–end relationship with Keiko, his Japanese girlfriend, whose apartment is packed with stuffed toys. But his troubles are only beginning. As the hot, stormy rainy season descends, Keiko’s family appears on his doorstep, determined to pressure him into marriage with their daughter. Owners of their own mysterious and threatening “company business,” they set about taking over his life. As Daniel resists, or tries to, he will learn a great deal about Japan—and about his own culture. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize, Mr Foreigner is the deliciously funny debut of one of Britain’s finest contemporary novelists.