This is a fascinating Japanese noir thriller, exploring fate and free will as well as giving the reader insightful views on Japan's culture and personality. Nishimura is a supremely gifted pickpocket who has a conscience but is detached from society, lifting wallets from people he sees as begin able to afford it. Asked to help out in a seemingly straightforward crime leads him into a dangerous set-up. The short book (210 pages) is a refreshingly intense read.
August 2012 eBook of the Month.
The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn't even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he chooses his victims. He has no family, no friends, no connections...But he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when Ishikawa, his first partner, reappears in his life, and offers him a job he can't refuse. It's an easy job: tie up an old rich man, steal the contents of the safe. No one gets hurt. Only the day after the job does he learn that the old man was a prominent politician, and that he was brutally killed after the robbery. And now the Thief is caught in a tangle even he might not be able to escape.
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Closing date: 07/09/2018
ISBN: 9781780339139
Publication date: 16/08/2012
Publisher: Corsair an imprint of Constable and Robinson
Format: Hardback
| ISBN: | 9781780339139 |
| Publication date: | 16th August 2012 |
| Author: | Fuminori Nakamura |
| Publisher: | Corsair an imprint of Constable and Robinson |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Genres: | Crime / Mystery, eBook Favourites, Literary Fiction, |
| Categories: | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), |
Fuminori Nakamura was born in 1977 and graduated from Fukushima University in 2000. In 2002, he won the prestigious Shincho Newcomer's Award for his first novel, A Gun, and in 2005 he won the Akutagawa prize for The Boy in the Earth.The Thief, winner of the 2009 Oe Prize, Japan's most important literary award, is his first novel to be published in English.
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