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Title: In the Empire of Dreams by Dianne Highbridge ISBN: 1-56947-190-8 Publisher: Soho Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Can't go home, not just yet
Comment: This is truly a rare book. One of those that you hope will never end but just keep telling you story after story. It's been a long time since I read a book that caused me to say out loud, so many times, "That is so true!", and underline passages. (My fellow commuters in the packed train to Osaka didn't bat an eye.) We all live in our own little worlds here, and Dianne Highbridge (or Takahashi?) has captured all those worlds to perfection, coming uncomfortably close, in my case, to why we come and why we stay. I felt she knew me and my friends personally. But you don't have to be an expat to enjoy this book. Japan is presented as it really is, not as the fairy tale country of the travel books, or the country of corporate drones as portrayed in the media, but a real place with real people. This book profoundly moved me, and I can't recommend it highly enough.

Rating: 4
Summary: Caution:Japan-ophiles: this book is addictive.
Comment: From the first page, this beguiling book lures the reader into a strange, exotic world. The cast of characters-mainly expatriate Brits and Aussies- but, also Japanese, expatriates in the confusing world of contradiction that is modern Japan- tell their tales with lyrical starkness. One or two phrases place the reader right in the midst of the struggle to triumph over transplanted self that is central to this beautiful, moving book. And always, in every page, every paragraph, there is a nearly visible example of beauty and grandeur , celebrating the tiniest of things, impressing them on your memory. Bravo, Ms Highbridge.

Rating: 5
Summary: Beautifully done
Comment: These loosely connected stories of expatriates in Japan (mostly women) portray the push-pull of living in a foreign culture. Although fictional, the experiences felt recognizable to me from my own couple of years living in another country. I look forward to future books by this author.

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