Review: Beauty and Chaos – Slices and Morsels of Tokyo Life by Michael Pronko, read by Peter Berkrot

Award-winning novelist and respected professor Michael Pronko, who has lived, worked and written in Tokyo for more than 20 years, invites us to take a tour of the largest city in the world in this beautiful series of superbly written essays.

I fell in love with Michael’s writing style listening to the award-winning detective Hiroshi series of mysteries, but from this non-fiction collection we can find out a lot about Tokyo life with deeply personal writings, observations, and insights. Complementing Michael’s sharply drawn descriptions is the absolute spot-on performance delivered by audiobooks industry legend and award-winning narrator Peter Berkrot. Drawing from his experience of recording more than 500 audiobooks, Peter manages to capture the perfect rhythm between the narrator’s voice and the tourist’s astonishment wondering those confusing streets and discovering their exotic secrets for the first time.

As I was listening to this audiobook I could literally see everything clearly and vividly in my mind’s eye thanks to the combined talents of these two amazing literary artists. I cannot recommend Beauty and Chaos enough to anyone interested to discover Tokyo in a different light.

Also, I highly recommend the above-mentioned Detective Hiroshi audiobooks, narrated as well by the extremely dedicated Peter Berkrot.

Michael and Peter are a force of nature put together and I’m sure that they will delight and entertain us for many years to come! Beauty and Chaos – Slices and Morsels of Tokyo Life is intriguing, informative, entertaining, and astonishing!

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Victor Dima

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Victor Dima is an internationally recognized Audiobooks Industry specialist, consultant, insider and reviewer with almost 10,000 helpful votes on Audible. Listened to more than 1,400 audiobooks, have written reviews for almost 400 and rated close to 800 of them. If you want Victor to review your audiobook or if you need help with choosing the right narrator, you can get in touch at reviews@theaudiobookblog.com

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