2021 Best Indie Book Award Winner
2021 International Rubery Book Award Nominee
"Rowe brings to life an impressive variety of nuanced characters and cultures. Every detail is mesmerising and nothing is predictable."
The Book
Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is a collection of short fiction set in Japan and in seven other countries around the world. Driven by characters who are tough, gritty, charming and witty, each of the sixteen tales takes the reader on a trip which ends with a twist.
Read 'West Wind' in Tokyo Weekender magazine, Japan's oldest English-language publication.
Read 'West Wind' in Tokyo Weekender magazine, Japan's oldest English-language publication.
REVIEWS!
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Good Night Papa:
Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
The Book
Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is fifteen stories high, nine countries wide, and tells of people with problems and the clever - and sometimes unorthodox - ways they use to resolve them.
Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is fifteen stories high, nine countries wide, and tells of people with problems and the clever - and sometimes unorthodox - ways they use to resolve them.
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Himeji strikes again!
"The Convenience Store Ballerina" makes the cut for
The Best Asian Short Stories 2019!
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GOOD NIGHT PAPA REVIEW
by Koi Kye Lee
Good Night Philippines!
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The Storyteller
Simon Rowe grew up in small town New Zealand and big city Australia. He writes short fiction and screenplays from a small room in an old house overlooking a samurai castle in Himeji city, western Honshu. His stories have appeared in TIME Asia, the New York Times, the Weekend Australian, the South China Morning Post and The Paris Review.
The Readers!
Good Night Kuala Lumpur
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Good Night Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Good Night at 30,000 ft.
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Good Night Montreal
Good Night East China Sea
Good Night Maracas Beach, Trinidad
Good Night Tokyo
Good Night Busan, Korea
Good Night in Budapest, Hungary
Good Night Vancouver, Canada
Good Night Australia
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Good Night Playa Negra, Costa Rica
Good Night Cebu, Phillipines
Good Night Nashville, Tennessee
Good Night Lucerne, Switzerland
Good Night Singapore
Good Night Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Good Night Kinryu Ramen, Osaka
Good Night Amsterdam
Good Night Hong Kong
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Good Night Hungary
Good Night Paris, France
Good Night Nara, Japan
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Good Night Phillip Island, Australia
Good Night London
Good Night Budapest, Hungary
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Good Night Melbourne, Australia
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Good Night Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina
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Good Night London
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Good Night Cluj Napoca, Romania
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Good Night Lucerne, Switzerland
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Good Night Dili, Timor Leste (East Timor)
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Good Night Saigon
Good Night Mentawai Islands, Indonesia
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Good Night Schloss Rosenau (Rosenau Palace), Coburg, Germany
Good Night Salzburg
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Other mad musings by Simon Rowe appear in:
Includes the story "Tuna Steak" by Simon Rowe. Click for amazon.com link
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Produced by members of Swinburne University, Master of Arts (Writing) program. Click image for amazon.com link
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Includes the short story "88 Seconds" by Simon Rowe. Click image for amazon.com link