2010 Japan Writers Conference: A look back « Tokyo Tom Baker: The Blog

The Peace Bell is a book about an inanimate object â€" a temple bell that was taken from Japan to the United States after World War II and then returned as a gesture of friendship many years later. .... Mallet also read a passage from his own not-yet-published novel “Appassionata,” describing an evening walk through Osaka that ends at the door to a love hotel. He concluded with the remark, “Osaka â€" my Osaka â€" is now fiction, like everything else in the book.” ...