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Villain / Shuichi Yoshida ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
Van Pelt Library PL865.O658 A7513 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yoshida, Shūichi, 1968-
- Standardized Title:
- Akunin. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Marginality, Social.
- Japan.
- Murder--Japan--Nagasaki-shi--Investigation--Fiction.
- Murder.
- Japan--Nagasaki-shi.
- Fugitives from justice--Fiction.
- Fugitives from justice.
- Marginality, Social--Japan--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Noir fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 295 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2010]
- Summary:
- "January 6, 2002. The body of a female insurance saleswoman is found in the southernmost region of Japan, at a spot rumored to be a home to ghosts. Shortly thereafter Yuichi, a young construction worker, is arrested by the Nagasaki police on suspicion of murder..."--from publisher description.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Japan as Akunin by Asahi Shimbun Publication Inc., Tokyo, in 2007"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 9780307378873
- 030737887X
- OCLC:
- 462881905
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