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Suzuki is just an ordinary man until his wife is murdered. When he discovers the criminal gang responsible, he leaves behind his life as a maths teacher and joins them, looking for a chance to take his revenge. What he doesn't realise is that he's about to get drawn into a web of unusual professional
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calling out the thriller genre but lso playing with the reader and the complicity of creating an illusion to invite people into the world of story and fabulations. In Japan, there’s quite a divide with books funneled to the pulp lane or the serious lane, but Isaka is riding that line between
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entertainment and more serious fiction, playing with those boundaries and pushing against that division. I’m always appreciative when artists straddle lanes or push boundaries like he does." Comparing the novel to Isaka's sequel novel
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s a sparser, sourer thriller, its slow pursuit distending across Tokyo and leaving plenty of time for dread", concluding that as a "surrealist fable disguised as a crime novel, “
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entertaining and captivating story must read for fans of this legendary
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