A quiet place / Seicho Matsumoto ; translated by Louise Heal Kawai.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: London : Bitter Lemon Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 235 pages ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1908524634
- 9781908524638
- Kikanakatta basho. English
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"A master crime writer . . . Seicho Matsumoto's thrillers dissect Japanese society."--The New York Times Book Review
"A stellar psychological thriller with a surprising and immensely satisfying resolution that flows naturally from the book's complex characterizations. Readers will agree that Matsumoto (1909-1992) deserves his reputation as Japan's Georges Simenon.-Publishers Weekly
While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn't totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly-spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed. How did it come about that his wife--who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings--ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighborhood?
When Tsuneo goes to apologize to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wife's death he discovers the villa Tachibana near by, a house known to be a meeting place for secret lovers. As he digs deeper into his wife's recent past, he must eventually conclude that she led a double life...
Seicho Matsumoto was Japan's most successful thriller writer. His first detective novel, Points and Lines , sold over a million copies in Japan. Vessel of Sand , published in English as Inspector Imanishi Investigates in 1989, sold over four million copies and became a movie box-office hit.
"First published in Japanese as Kikanakatta Basho by Kadokawa Corporation, Tokyo, 1975" -- Title page verso.
"Bitter Lemon Press crime paperback original" -- Page 4 of cover.
While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition, so the news of her death wasn't totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise leave Tsuneo perplexed. How did it come about that his wife, who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings, ended up dead in a small shop in a quiet residential Tokyo neighborhood? When Tsuneo goes to apologize to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wife's death, he discovers the Hotel Tachibana nearby, a shady establishment known as a rendezvous for secret lovers. As he digs deeper into his wife's recent past, he must eventually conclude that she led a double life.
Translated from the Japanese.