Reviews

In Atomic Sushi, May seeks to break the deadlock by recounting, wittily and often brilliantly, his personal experiences, greedily amassed during a year spent teaching at the University of Tokyo... The anecdotes are often hilarious, sharply drawn and told in a droll tone that contrasts with the eccentricities being conjured up. The interpretations are sometimes amusing and sometimes astute... May has a delicious, if sometimes cruel, take on things'
The Financial Times, July 2006

'An intelligent and personable author who writes beautifully and tells good jokes... As well as cataloguing the bizarre and the comic, May subtly expresses his mixed feelings about Japan'
The Literary Review, July 2006

'May, best known for The Little Book of Big Thoughts (2005), goes to weddings, funerals, meetings with high-powered businessmen, and New Year's Eve celebrations with Zen Buddhists, providing a series of brief, but well-observed and often funny snapshots of life in Japan that help him develop a wider picture of the country.'
Times Literary Supplement

ATOMIC SUSHI by Simon May
ISBN: 1-84688-022-X, Paperback, £9.99, 224 pp.
Publication Date: February 2007