
Point Zero
Seicho Matsumoto(Author)
Bitter Lemon Press
Will be published approx. on 15. February 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-913394-93-6 (ISBN)
Description
Tokyo, 1958. Teiko marries Kenichi Uhara, ten years her senior, an advertising man recommended by a go-between. After a four-day honeymoon, Kenichi vanishes. Teiko travels to the coastal and snow-bound city of Kanazawa, where Kenichi was last seen, to investigate his disappearance. When Kenichi's brother comes to help her, he is murdered, poisoned in his hotel room.
Soon, Teiko discovers that her husband's disappearance is tied up with the so-called "pan-pan girls", women who worked as prostitutes catering to American GIs after the war. Now, ten years later, as the country is recovering, there are those who are willing to take extreme measures to hide that past.
Soon, Teiko discovers that her husband's disappearance is tied up with the so-called "pan-pan girls", women who worked as prostitutes catering to American GIs after the war. Now, ten years later, as the country is recovering, there are those who are willing to take extreme measures to hide that past.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
263 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-913394-93-6 (9781913394936)
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Seicho Matsumoto was Japan's most successful thriller writer. His first detective novel, "Points and Lines", sold over a million copies in Japan. "Vessel of Sand", published in English as Inspector Imanishi Investigates in 1989, sold over four million copies and became a movie box-office hit. Bitter Lemon Press published his novel "A Quiet Place to great acclaim.