Parade

Zusatztext

<p>Four twenty-somethings share an apartment in Tokyo. In<i>Parade</i>each tells their story: their lives, their hopes and fears, their loves, their secrets.</p><p>Kotomi waits by the phone for a boyfriend who never calls. Ryosuke wants someone that he cant have. Mirai spends her days drawing and her nights hanging out in gay bars. Naoki works for a film company, and everyone treats him like an elder brother. Then Satoru turns up. Hes eighteen, homeless, and does night work of a very particular type.</p><p>In the next-door apartment something disturbing is going on. And outside, in the streets around their apartment block, there is violence in the air. From the writer of the cult classic<i>Villain</i>,<i>Parade</i>is a tense, disturbing, thrilling tale of life in the city.</p>

Autorenportrait

<b>Shuichi Yoshida</b>was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1968. He is the author of numerous books and has won many Japanese literary awards, including the Akutagawa 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 the film of<i>Villain</i>was released in 2010. Yoshida lives in Tokyo.

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