The Wrong Goodbye

Zusatztext The Wrong Goodbye is a hard-boiled treasure, a Chandleresque elegy to a time of shady deals, femme fatales, and of course, murder. These are tropes with which mystery readers will undoubtedly be familiar. Yet this novel is also a beguiling peephole into a Japanese society that readers will perhaps not know so well; a world of US airbases, black markets, and corrupt ploys. While Toshihiko Yahagi may not be the heavyweight in the Anglophone world that he is in Japan, he very much deserves to be. Simply put, The Wrong Goodbye is a siren song of poetic noir. Informationen zum Autor Manga artist-turned-novelist Toshihiko Yahagi is Japan's premier writer of intellectual noir and political satire. The Wrong Goodbye , featuring Detective Futamura, is his first work to be translated into English. Klappentext A classic slice of Japanese hard-boiled noir paying homage to the master of the genre: Raymond Chandler Zusammenfassung A classic slice of Japanese hard-boiled noir paying homage to the master of the genre: Raymond Chandler

Product details

• Authors: Toshihiko Yahagi
• Assisted by: Alfred Birnbaum (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781529400977
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-0097-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 236 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Fiction in translation, HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Vietnam War fiction, TRAVEL / Asia / East / Japan