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(*)(北方謙三, trans. by Paul Warham) (★)(Titulo original : Ori [檻、1983年] 1.Kazuya Takino leads a quiet life running a supermarket in the Tokyo suburbs. But when an extortionist tries to force him out of business, he finds himself drawn into the yakuza underworld -a world he once called home and thought he had left behind. Pursuing him is Detective Takagi, an aficionado of French cigarettes and modernist poetry, the most decorated inspector on the Tokyo police force. As the shadowy Maruwa gang engages Takino in an escalating cycle of violence and retaliation, Detective Takagi can only stand by and watch as the beast within Takino is lured further and further out of his cage. A towering masterpiece of the hardboiled genre,´The Cage´ is at once a searing portrayal of the violence of the Japanese underworld and a tender meditation on the ties of love and friendship that can save men from madness -or plunge them deeper into it. 2.Kenzo Kitakata is the undisputed don of hardboiled and mystery writing in Japan, where he has received numerous literary awards. ´The Cage´ won the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award and is his third novel to appear in English. His American debut ´Ashes´ was one of Las Vegas Mercury´s 10 Best Novels of 2003, a BookSense Selection, and a Village Voice Summer Read.) |
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