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21) Individutopia
Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
588 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This second half of Lady Joker, by Kaoru Takamura, the Grand Dame of Japanese crime fiction, concludes a breathtaking saga of subterfuge, betrayal, and revenge gone wrong. Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case that terrorized Japan for two years, Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of this watershed episode in modern Japanese history and brings into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the victims, the perpetrators,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 154 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
576 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This tour-de-force is widely regarded as the quintessential post-WWII Japanese novel. A plan to kidnap a major corporation's CEO becomes an allegory for the alienation of the individual self, a mirror to modern-day Japanese identity. In 1995 in Tokyo, five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on the horses. They have little in common except a disaffection with their lives. One is a poorly socialized but genius factory welder. One is a demoted...
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