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Lady Joker - The Million Copy Bestselling 'Masterpiece of Japanese Crime Fiction' (Paperback)
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Lady Joker - The Million Copy Bestselling 'Masterpiece of Japanese Crime Fiction' (Paperback)
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*THE JAPANESE CRIME CLASSIC - ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD* 'One of the
great masterpieces of Japanese crime fiction and one of the
must-read books of this or any year' David Peace Tokyo, 1995. Five
men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have
little in common except a deep disaffection with their lives, but
together they represent the social struggles and griefs of post-War
Japan: a poorly socialized genius stuck working as a welder; a
demoted detective with a chip on his shoulder; a Zainichi Korean
banker sick of being ostracized for his ethnicity; a struggling
single dad of a teenage girl with Down's syndrome. The fifth man
bringing them all together is an elderly drugstore owner grieving
his grandson, who has died in suspicious circumstances. Intent on
revenge against a society that values corporate behemoths more than
human life, the five conspirators decide to carry out a heist:
kidnap the CEO of Japan's largest beer conglomerate and extract
blood money from the company's corrupt financiers. Inspired by the
unsolved true-crime kidnapping case perpetrated by "the Monster
with 21 Faces," Lady Joker has become a cultural touchstone since
its 1997 publication, acknowledged as the magnum opus by one of
Japan's literary masters, twice adapted for film and TV and often
taught in high school and college classrooms. 'A novel that
portrays with devastating immensity how those on the dark fringes
of society can be consumed by the darkness of their own hearts'
Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police 'Takamura's prismatic heist
novel offers a broad indictment of capitalist society' New York
Times 'Lady Joker is a work you get immersed in, like a sprawling
19th century novel or a TV series like The Wire' NPR
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