Title: Villain
Author(s): Shūichi Yoshida; Philip Gabriel
Language: English
Published: 03 August 2010
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780307378873
Extension: EPUB
Size: 269 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, History, Mystery & Detective, Suspense, Crime, Police Procedural, Literary, Murder, Fiction - General, Mystery fiction, Japan, True Crime, Noir fiction, Fugitives from justice, Japanese (Language) Contemporary Fiction, Asia, Man-woman relationships - Japan, Homicide investigation - Japan, Marginality; Social
Categories: Fiction, Literature, Suspense, Thriller
A young insurance saleswoman is found strangled at Mitsuse Pass. Her family and friends are shocked and terrified. The pass-which tunnels through a mountainous region of southern Japan-has an eerie history: a hideout for robbers, murderers, and ghostly creatures lurking at night.
Soon afterward, a young construction worker becomes the primary suspect. As the investigation unfolds, the events leading up to the murder come darkly into focus, revealing a troubled cast of characters: the victim, Yoshino, a woman much too eager for acceptance; the suspect, Yuichi, a car enthusiast misunderstood by everyone around him; the victim's middle-aged father, a barber disappointed with his life; and the suspect's aging grandmother, who survived the starvation of postwar Japan only to be tormented by local gangsters. And, finally, there is desperate Mitsuyo, the lonely woman who finds Yuichi online and makes the big mistake of falling for him.
A stunningly dark thriller and a tapestry of noir, Villain is the English-language debut for Shuichi Yoshida, one of Japan's most acclaimed and accomplished writers. From desolate seaside towns and lighthouses to love hotels and online chat rooms, Villain reveals the inner lives of men and women who all have something to hide. Part police procedural, part gritty realism, Villain is a coolly seductive story of loneliness and alienation in the southernmost reaches of Japan.
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