People Who Eat Darkness

An extraordinary, compulsive and brilliant book…very, very moving – David PeaceDifficult to put down… impossible to forget – Minette WaltersA skilful, definitive history of one of the most notorious crimes of the past decade * Sunday Times *This is In Cold Blood for our times… Everyone who has ever loved someone and held that life dear should read this stunning book, and shiver – Chris CleaveOpen-minded and sympathetic, despite being driven half mad by the case, Parry, former Asia correspondent for the Independent and The Times, is the best kind of narrator of a tale that isn’t just a murder case but a book that sheds light on Japan, on families, on the media, and on the insidious effects of misogyny – Blake Morrison * Guardian *This is an extraordinary book which stands as far above the ‘true crime’ label as Paradise Lost does above the category ‘verse’… No avenue is left unexplored, no thought is too oblique to be uttered, no psychological puzzle too disturbing to be investigated – Bel Mooney * Daily Mail *A skilful, definitive history of one of the most notorious crimes of the past decade * Sunday Times *Richard Lloyd Parry has produced a work not only of page-turning intensity but also of touching sensitivity and deep insight. That he could have created something almost noble from such base material is a minor miracle of literary alchemy. The book is brilliantly written – David Pilling * Financial Times *An extraordinary book, passionately and meticulously told… I read it with my breath held and found I couldn’t relax, think or get on with my life until I’d finished it – Julie MyersonParry shows a rare compassion and a refusal to judge – Jonathan Coe * Guardian, Books of the Year *

Richard Lloyd Parry is Asia Editor of The Times. He was born in 1969 and was educated at Oxford. He has been visiting Asia for eighteen years and since 1995 has lived in Tokyo as a foreign correspondent, first for the Independent and now for The Times. He has reported from twenty-one countries and several wars, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, East Timor, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Kosovo and Macedonia. His work has also appeared in the London Review of Books and the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of In The Time of Madness, an eyewitness account of the violence that interrupted in Indonesia in the 1990s, and People Who Eat Darkness- The Fate of Lucie Blackman.

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