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Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore Kindle Edition

by Ray Loriga (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
This dreamlike dystopian novel “shines a dark spotlight on the modern allure of pharmaceuticals’ seeming power to assuage all ills” (Booklist).
 
Set in the very near future, this is the story of a traveling salesman floating from arid Arizona parking lots to steamy Bangkok bars and beyond to peddle the hottest new commodity for a group known only as The Company. What he has is a drug that erases memory. You can choose your oblivion, be it one mistake or a lifetime of pain. But things become hazy when our hero begins sampling the goods and reaches the point where he can’t even remember what it is he cannot remember.
 
A pitch-perfect piece for our times filled with hypnotic prose, Tokyo Doesn’t Love Us Anymore is both a riveting story and a thoughtful exploration of the drug culture that surrounds us, the nature of forgetfulness, and the implacable tyranny of emotions—questioning what it means to be human when everything, including human identity, can be bought.
 
“Part crime novel, part political allegory, part love story . . . Compelling.” —The New York Times Book Review
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  1. Print length
    276 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Grove Press
  4. Publication date
    December 1, 2007
  5. File size
    4.3 MB
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In Spanish writer Loriga's derivative novel, an anonymous narrator travels the world of the near future selling memory-erasing drugs to anyone with recollections they'd rather forget. The callous but despairing narrator peddles "chemical" for the "Company," which sends him around the globe, from Arizona to Bangkok, from Berlin to Tokyo. In each exotic port-of-call the agent makes a sale or two, has anonymous sex and collects memories he himself will one day have to erase. "There's no longer anything that chemical can't hide nor anything that chemical isn't capable of bringing back again," he laments. Occasionally, Loriga conjures up an interesting futuristic nugget (e.g., a computer program that reincarnates the dead), but more often he meanders into generic tangents that could have come from any other dystopian sci-fi novel. Sometimes his hard-boiled prose hits the mark ("Memory is like the most stupid dog, you throw it a stick and it brings you any old thing"), but often he tries too hard for neo-noir hipness ("Tijuana stretches out into the desert like a stain of oil on an ice rink"). The novel feels cobbled together from the work of past sci-fi masters: the cold and indiscriminate sexuality of J.G. Ballard's Crash, the hallucinogenic tone of Burroughs's Naked Lunch, the cyberpunk globe-trotting of William Gibson and the bleak not-too-distant-future of Philip K. Dick. In the end, Loriga's own story barely emerges from the homages to his predecessors.
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From Bookmarks Magazine

Bleak and hallucinogenic, Loriga’s tale, published five years ago in Spain, follows a similar outline to ones used by William Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Philip K. Dick before him, not to mention Charlie Kaufman’s screenplay Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Critics praise Loriga’s ability to piece together a story that threatens to fall apart at any moment. Although it’s tough to connect to the anonymous narrator, the author "adds romantic yearning and original wit to an increasingly ubiquitous figure" (The New York Times). A secondary plotline involving a vigilante group fails on several levels, but that can be overlooked. Now SF fans have another despairing anti-hero to emulate.

Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005LPUCX4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grove Press (December 1, 2007)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 1, 2007
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4.3 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 276 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

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  • Adam Donaldson Powell
    5.0 out of 5 stars “Damn. I wish I could write like that!”
    Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2019
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    Wow! Ray Loriga delivers again — in his characteristic cinematic, stream of consciousness style. I have read Rendición, Sábado, Domingo, Tokyo Doesn’t Love Us Anymore, and I am about to devour a fourth novel by him. Loriga’s narratives are both expansive and detailed, giving a sense of not having any true beginning or end. The Reader is simply plunged into a film in progress. The life raft is always within reach but it gives no concrete satisfaction in itself because it is merely an object — thrashing around in a sea of abstraction, complexities and meaningful meaninglessness. The story is always composed of many bits of smaller stories — providing an inside looking out vs. outside looking in perspective — as we dive deeper and deeper into Loriga’s rabbit hole. And upon reading the final words I gasp: “Damn. I wish I could write like that!”
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  • Merry
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sad yet fundamental
    Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2011
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    This is a roaringly good novel. I haven't had this much fun reading a book since Deborah Hersh is a Liar. But this but is more than just entertainment. It has hidden depths. Notice the river imagery in the opening. The final scene is also extremely powerful. I don't want to spoil it. Buy it and enjoy.
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  • Sandwich
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
    Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2013
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    The use of amnesia and disconnected events makes it an exciting read. It kind of reminds me of Brave New World as for the aspect of drug use. I feel this will become a classic some day.
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  • C. Carey
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Modern Masterpiece
    Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2009
    I really couldn't leave the review posted above as the only note on this outstanding book.
    The story itself unravels with a sense of entropic disintegration; running in tandem with the central character's loss of self and a release of absolution - after all he sells a chemical that erases memories. The genius of this subtlety gives the reader credit for understanding the plot and naturally etching possible conclusions - Loriga has out-thought the process in delivering this masterpiece in great style, entertainment and prose.
    In short an excellent read. Get it!!!
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  • E. M. Dawson
    3.0 out of 5 stars Style over substance
    Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2005
    I picked this up based on the the quote by Almodovar (who the author cowrote the screenplay Live Flesh) " A facinating cross between Marguerite Duras and Jim Thompson". Intrigued I decided to read it. Maybe it was the translation (translated from Spanish) but I did not see much of Duras or Thompson in this work. Closer in style to W. Burroughs. Tale of a travelling salesman peddeling a mind erasing drug and as audience we are left to piece together the fragments of our narrators own story which he himself does not remember from repeated use of his own product. Fans of non-linear storytelling might be more tolerant of this novel but I got bored and ploughed my way through the last third of the book.

    wish I had enjoyed this book more than I did.
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  • candyflipper
    4.0 out of 5 stars 忘れたい記憶とは？
    Reviewed in Japan on January 20, 2004
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    完全にタイトルに惹かれました。
    ヨーロッパでも雑誌やフリーペーパーに載っていたのと、記憶を消してくれる
    薬･タイトルに東京･･･思わず帰国後に購入。
    日記のように淡々と、(わざと？)平坦に書かれた文章。内容的にも、極端に
    難しい表現を避けている気がします。私は勝手にサスペンス展開を想像して
    いたのですが、途中からエンディングにかけて、見事に裏切られました、良
    い意味で。
    普段はペーパーバックが読みきれない私が、あまり辞書を引かずに読み進めた
    点がポイントでしょうか･･･
    ニューエイジという言葉がぴったりな気がします。
    スペイン語版の原作も、がんばれば読めそうだなぁ。
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  • Christiane Berger
    5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing book!
    Reviewed in Germany on July 24, 2010
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    If you like Bret Easton Ellis, don't hesitate and buy this book from Ray Loriga,it's really amazing! I would have liked to read it in original, but my Spanish is not good enough for such a masterpiece. It's true, that the end is a little bit boring, but give it a try, you won't regret it!
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  • D G
    5.0 out of 5 stars I may have read this before
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2022
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    Started reading it after picking it off my bookshelf, I may have read it before, but I don’t really have any memory of what happens.
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  • Jose Mario Sanchez Donas
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 25, 2016
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    Great Book
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