Penguin Sympathy Tower Tokyo.

Rie Qudan

ISBN 10: 1405972068 / ISBN 13: 9781405972062

Published by Penguin Viking, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Penguin Sympathy Tower Tokyo.
• Publisher: Penguin Viking
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405972068
• ISBN 13: 9781405972062
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1780595067.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 47910804
• Signed: 6/4/2026 5:44:27 PM
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Synopsis

The award-winning, bestselling Japanese phenomenon. A propulsive, prophetic novel about the beauty of language and the nature of identity in the age of AI.

Welcome to the Japan of tomorrow. Here, the practice of a radical sympathy toward criminals has become the norm and a grand skyscraper in the heart of Tokyo is planned to house wrongdoers in compassionate comfort – Sympathy Tower Tokyo.

Acclaimed architect Sara Machina has been tasked with designing the city's new centrepiece, but is riven by doubt. Haunted by a terrible crime she experienced as a young girl, she wonders if she might inherently disagree with the values of the project, which should be the pinnacle of her career. As Sara grapples with these conflicting emotions, her relationship with her gorgeous – and much younger – boyfriend grows increasingly strained. In search of solace, in need of creative inspiration, Sara turns to the knowing words of an AI chatbot…

Awarded Japan's highest literary prize, Sympathy Tower Tokyo is an extraordinary novel from one of the most exciting new voices in world literature. Partly inspired by conversations with an artificial intelligence, it offers an extraordinary defence of the power of language written by humans, a touching exploration of the imaginative impulse, and an often hilarious send up of our modern world's unrelenting conformity.