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Informationen zum Autor Philip Gabriel is the author of Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature and Spirit Matters: The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature and has translated many novels and short stories by the writer Haruki Murakami and other modern writers. He is recipient of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2001) for his translation of Senji Kuroi’s Life in the Cul-de-Sac , and the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for his translation of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore . Klappentext 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; As the police close in on Yuichi and his new lover, the stories of the victim, the murderer and their families are uncovered. Zusammenfassung 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; As the police close in on Yuichi and his new lover, the stories of the victim, the murderer and their families are uncovered.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Shuichi Yoshida, Yoshida Shuichi
• Collaboration: Philip Gabriel (Traduction), Gabriel Philip (Traduction)
• Edition: Vintage UK
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 18.08.2011
• EAN: 9780099526650
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952665-0
• Pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary