Prefecture D
$37.32
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
16 October 2019
Summary
A collection of four novellas: each taking place in 1998, each set in the world of SIX FOUR, and each centring around a mystery and the unfortunate officer tasked with solving it.
SEASON OF SHADOWS “The force could lose face … I want you to fix this.” Personnel’s Futawatari receives a horrifying memo forcing him to investigate the behaviour of a legendary detective with unfinished business.
CRY OF THE EARTH “It’s too easy to kill a man with a …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786484666 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1786484668 |
| Author: | Hideo Yokoyama, Jonathan Lloyd-Davies |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 16 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 128mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
Addictive.
He’s a master. - New York Times Book Review
Very different … to almost anything out there. - ObserverYokoyama possesses that elusive trait of a first-rate novelist: the ability to grab readers’ interest and never let go. - Washington PostAn education about Japan.Addictive. - The TimesAbout The Author
Hideo Yokoyama
Hideo Yokoyama (Author)
Born in 1957, Hideo Yokoyama worked for twelve years as an investigative reporter with a regional newspaper north of Tokyo, before becoming one of Japan’s most acclaimed fiction writers. His exhaustive and relentless work ethic is known to mirror the intense and obsessive behaviour of his characters; and in January 2003 he was hospitalized following a heart attack brought about by working constantly for seventy-two hours.
Jonathan Lloyd-Davies (Translator)
Jonathan Lloyd-Davies studied Japanese at Durham and Chinese at Oxford; he currently works as a translator of Japanese fiction. His translations include Edge by Koji Suzuki, with co-translator Camellia Nieh, the Demon Hunters trilogy by Baku Yumemakura, Gray Men by Tomotake Ishikawa, and Nan-Core by Mahokaru Numata. His translation of Edge received the Shirley Jackson award for best novel. Originally from Wales, he now resides in Tokyo.
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