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(*) (trans. by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi) (★)(Titulo original : Ryu wa nemuru [龍は眠る] 1.A fierce typhoon strikes Tokyo one night, flooding the city streets. Someone removes a manhole cover, and a little boy out searching for his pet goes missing and is believed drowned in the sewers. Is it murder? These events throw together a struggling journalist named Kosaka with two young men who may or may not have psychic powers. Forming an unlikely alliance, the three dig into the boy´s disappearance. However, as a series of inexplicable events unfold, Kosaka wonders if his new young acquaintances haven´t snared him in some kind of strange con game. Then the journalist´s former fiancee disappears. Known to still be harboring strong feelings for his now-married old girlfriend, Kosaka becomes the main suspect in the case. With his reputation and personal life threatening to crumble altogether, Kosaka is forced to wrestle not only with life-threatening events but also his rising doubts about the two young men who have so suddenly appeared in his life. Author Miyabe is a household name in Japan, and the author of over 40 titles to date in Japanese. This is her fifth mystery to appear in English translation. It combines the spare, hard-boiled tone of her popular first novel in English,´All She Was Worth´, with the paranormal themes of her more recent ´Crossfire´, weaving together a complex web of crime and an exploration of human potential for greater power than we now know, a.k.a.´The Sleeping Dragon´. 2.MIYUKI MIYABE is a bestselling Japanese author of more than 40 novels and the recipient of numerous mystery and literary awards, including Japan´s top prize for popular literature, the Naoki Prize. Her books have been translated into over 15 languages including, French, Danish, Russian, Greek, German, Chinese, and Korean. Other titles include ´The Devil´s Whisper´,´All She Was Worth´,´Shadow Family´, and ´Crossfire´. She is also the author of the young adult novel ´Brave Story´, which won a Batchelder Award from the Association for Library Service. This is her fifth suspense novel to be translated into English.) |
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