Villain

Zusatztext

<p><b>A young woman is brutally murdered on a remote mountain road. A young construction worker, Yuichi, is on the run - but is he guilty?</b></p><p><b>This is the dark heart of Japan; a world of seedy sex hotels and decaying seaside towns; a world of loneliness, violence and desperation.</b></p><p><b>As the police close in on Yuichi and his new lover, the stories of the victim, the murderer and their families are uncovered. But these men and women are never what they appear to be...</b></p>

Autorenportrait

Shuichi Yoshida was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1968. He is the author of numerous books and has won many Japanese literary awards, including the Akutayawa Prize for<i>Park Life</i>, and the prestigious Osaragi Jiro Prize and the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award, both of which he received for<i>Villain</i>. Several of his stories have been adapted for Japanese television, and a film based on<i>Villain</i>was released in 2010 in Japan as<i>Akunin</i>. Yoshida lives in Tokyo.

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