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Lady Joker, Volume 1 (Paperback)
Kaoru Takamura; Translated by Allison Markin Powell, Marie Iida
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R572
R492
Discovery Miles 4 920
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'One of the great masterpieces of Japanese crime fiction' David
Peace, author of Tokyo Year Zero One of Japan's great modern
writers, this second half of Lady Joker brings Kaoru Takamura's
breathtaking masterpiece to a gripping conclusion. Five men who
meet at a Tokyo racetrack every week carry out a heist. They have
kidnapped the CEO of Japan's largest beer company to extract blood
money from the company's corrupt financiers. Known as Lady Joker,
the men make their first attack on the beer company when their
demands are not met. As the attacks escalate, the shady networks
linking corporations to syndicates are exposed, the stakes rise,
and bring into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the
victims, the perpetrators, the heroes and the villains. Some will
lose everything, even their lives. Inspired by the real-life
Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case that terrorized Japan
for two years, Lady Joker reimagines this watershed episode in
modern Japanese history. '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
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Lady Joker, Volume 2 (Paperback)
Kaoru Takamura; Translated by Allison Markin Powell, Marie Iida
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R562
R480
Discovery Miles 4 800
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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 syndrome. The fifth man
bringing them all together is an elderly drugstore owner grieving
his grandson, who 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. '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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Lady Joker: Volume 2 (Paperback)
Kaoru Takamura; Translated by Allison Markin Powell, Marie Iida
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R507
R406
Discovery Miles 4 060
Save R101 (20%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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'One of the great masterpieces of Japanese crime fiction' David
Peace, author of Tokyo Year Zero One of Japan's great modern
writers, this second half of Lady Joker brings Kaoru Takamura's
breathtaking masterpiece to a gripping conclusion. Five men who
meet at a Tokyo racetrack every week carry out a heist. They have
kidnapped the CEO of Japan's largest beer company to extract blood
money from the company's corrupt financiers. Known as Lady Joker,
the men make their first attack on the beer company when their
demands are not met. As the attacks escalate, the shady networks
linking corporations to syndicates are exposed, the stakes rise,
and bring into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the
victims, the perpetrators, the heroes and the villains. Some will
lose everything, even their lives. Inspired by the real-life
Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case that terrorized Japan
for two years, Lady Joker reimagines this watershed episode in
modern Japanese history. '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
*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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Lady Joker: Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Kaoru Takamura; Translated by Allison Markin Powell, Marie Iida
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R607
R499
Discovery Miles 4 990
Save R108 (18%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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'One of the great masterpieces of Japanese crime fiction' David
Peace, author of Tokyo Year Zero One of Japan's great modern
writers, this second half of Lady Joker brings Kaoru Takamura's
breathtaking masterpiece to a gripping conclusion. Five men who
meet at a Tokyo racetrack every week carry out a heist. They have
kidnapped the CEO of Japan's largest beer company to extract blood
money from the company's corrupt financiers. Known as Lady Joker,
the men make their first attack on the beer company when their
demands are not met. As the attacks escalate, the shady networks
linking corporations to syndicates are exposed, the stakes rise,
and bring into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the
victims, the perpetrators, the heroes and the villains. Some will
lose everything, even their lives. Inspired by the real-life
Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case that terrorized Japan
for two years, Lady Joker reimagines this watershed episode in
modern Japanese history. '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
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