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Villain
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Description
A young woman is brutally murdered on a remote mountain road. A young construction worker, Yuichi, is on the run – but is he guilty?This is the dark heart of Japan; a world of seedy sex hotels and decaying seaside towns; a world of loneliness, violence and desperation. As the police close in on Yuichi and his new lover, the stories of the victim, the murderer and their families are uncovered. But these men and women are never what they appear to be…
Additional information
| Weight | 0.213 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.8 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 304 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2011-8-18 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099526654 |
| About The Author | Shuichi Yoshida was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1968. He is the author of numerous books and has won many Japanese literary awards, including the Akutayawa Prize for Park Life, and the prestigious Osaragi Jiro Prize and the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award, both of which he received for Villain. Several of his stories have been adapted for Japanese television, and a film based on Villain was released in 2010 in Japan as Akunin. Yoshida lives in Tokyo. |
Yoshida has been compared to Stieg Larsson for his pairing of lurid crime and social critique, but his tone is less sensationalist, more melancholic…Yoshida exposes cruelty and alienation at all levels of Japanese society |
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| Other text | A gripping psychological thriller which shows a very different Japan from the neon-lit Tokyo we are more used to |
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