ミート・ザ・ビート

He is nineteen, studying for university entrance at a cram school and working shifts in a regional town about an hour from Tokyo, killing his free time with local friends. Then a friend hands him an old Honda Beat. Tinkering with the little car, feeling it respond under his hands and taking it out with the others, he finds his days changing, with new people, a first love and an uneasy tie to a call girl, in a town that hems him in.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

156 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2009 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

24 when first published

ISBN

9784163290904 (original)