Wrong about Japan

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Wrong About Japan
1st edition (Australia)
Author	Peter Carey
Country	Australia
Language	English
Genre	Travel
Publisher	Random House (Australia) Knopf (US) Faber & Faber (UK)
Publication date	2004 (Australia) 2005 (UK & US)
Media type	Print (Hardback)
ISBN	1-74051-325-8

Wrong about Japan is a 2004 book by Peter Carey. It is subtitled A Father's Journey with his Son.

Superficially a piece of travel writing, Wrong About Japan, is a partially fictionalized account of Carey's cultural investigation of Japan alongside his son, Charley.

Overview

Carey relates his experience traveling to Japan with his twelve-year-old son Charley, a fan of manga and anime. During this trip, Carey meets, together with his son, and interviews Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hayao Miyazaki. The main theme of the book is the contrast between the son, mostly interested in manga, anime, and technology, and the father, interested in Japanese history and traditional culture. Another important aspect of the book is the difficulty Carey encounters in his attempts as a foreigner in understanding Japanese culture.

References

v t e Works by Peter Carey

Novels	Bliss (1981) Illywhacker (1985) Oscar and Lucinda (1988) The Tax Inspector (1991) The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (1994) Jack Maggs (1997) True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) My Life as a Fake (2003) Theft: A Love Story (2006) His Illegal Self (2008) Parrot and Olivier in America (2010) The Chemistry of Tears (2012)

Short story collections	The Fat Man in History (1974) War Crimes (1979) The Fat Man in History and Other Stories (1980) Exotic Pleasures (1990) Collected Stories (1994)

Juvenile fiction	The Big Bazoohley (1995)

Non-fiction	A Letter to Our Son (1994) 30 Days in Sydney (2001) Letter from New York (2001) Wrong about Japan (2004)

Screenplays	Bliss (1985, with Ray Lawrence) Until the End of the World (1991, with Wim Wenders)

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