SIMON ROWE

2021 Best Indie Book Award winner
2021 International Rubery Book Award nominee
2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist

"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.

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Please note that due to airmail restrictions, all overseas orders are shipped by surface mail from Japan. Estimated delivery time: 8-10 weeks

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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.

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The Best Asian Short Stories 2019!

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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.