The Cage / Kenzo Kitakata
Por: Kitakata, Kenzo [Autor].
Tipo de material: LibroEditor: New York: Vertical, 2006Descripción: 230 p.ISBN: 9781932234.Tema(s): NOVELA-JAPONESA | LITERATURA-JAPONESA | JAPON-LITERATURA | NOVELA POLICÍACA | READING BOOKClasificación CDD: 865 Resumen: Kazuya Takino 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 with in Takino is lured further and further out of his cage. A towering masterpice 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 itTipo de ítem | Ubicación actual | Signatura | Copia número | Estado | Fecha de vencimiento | Código de barras | Reserva de ejemplares |
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Kazuya Takino 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 with in Takino is lured further and further out of his cage. A towering masterpice 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
Kitakata, Kenzo 2006 2006
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