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Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window

A runaway bestseller in Japan about a girl who finds herself

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Ryan Holiday
@ryanholiday · Author, Ego is the Enemy
This book has sold something like 5 million copies in Japan alone (an insane number). Totto-Chan is a special figure in modern Japanese culture--she is a celebrity on par with Oprah or Ellen, with a magazine, news show and exalted position to boot. The book describes a childhood in pre-WWII Japan as a poorly misunderstood girl who obviously suffered from att… See more