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Set in an imagined town outside Tokyo, Clarissa Goenawan’s dark, spellbinding literary debut follows a young man’s path to self-discovery in the wake of his sister’s murder.
Soho Press
March 2018
On Sale: March 6, 2018
336 pages
ISBN: 1616958553
EAN: 9781616958558
Kindle: B071X2J7GQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller Psychological
Ren Ishida has nearly completed his graduate degree at
Keio University when he receives news of his sister’s
violent death. Keiko was stabbed one rainy night on her
way home, and there are no leads. Ren heads to Akakawa to
conclude his sister’s affairs, failing to understand why
she chose to turn her back on the family and Tokyo for
this desolate place years ago. But then Ren is offered Keiko’s newly vacant teaching
position at a prestigious local cram school and her
bizarre former arrangement of free lodging at a wealthy
politician’s mansion in exchange for reading to the man’s
ailing wife. He accepts both, abandoning Tokyo and his
crumbling relationship there in order to better
understand his sister’s life and what took place the
night of her death. As Ren comes to know the eccentric local figures, from
the enigmatic politician who’s boarding him to his fellow
teachers and a rebellious, captivating young female
student, he delves into his shared childhood with Keiko
and what followed. Haunted in his dreams by a young girl
who is desperately trying to tell him something, Ren
realizes that Keiko Ishida kept many secrets, even from
him.
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