Death By Choice
Published on 1. February 2013
251 pages
978-0-85728-266-8 (ISBN)
Description
Yoshio Kita's hopelessness and lack of faith in his future crystallizes into a decision to commit suicide by what he calls 'capital punishment at free will', meaning his only pressing problem now is how to spend both his remaining self-allocated seven days on earth and all his worldly money. From fine dining with a former porn actress to insuring his life, from pursuing an ex-girlfriend to an entanglement with an assassin, Yoshio's last seven days on earth take on unexpected twists and turns in this darkly comic exploration of the cult of suicide in Japan and the culture that has created it.
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Masahiko Shimada is one of Japan's best-known and most prolific fiction writers, and the winner of awards including the Noma Literary Prize for New Writers.
Meredith McKinney is currently a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, and works as a freelance translator.
Meredith McKinney is currently a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, and works as a freelance translator.
Content
- FRONT MATTER
- HALF TITLE
- FULL TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- Chapter 1: Friday
- Somewhere over Tokyo
- Not Just Your Average Guy - A Sermon
- Dinner's Ready
- Walpurgis Night
- Chapter 2: Saturday
- A Seaside Health Resort
- His Sixth Last Supper
- Chapter 3: Sunday
- Once in a Lifetime
- Chapter 4: Monday
- Don't Tell Mum
- How Much for Dying?
- Confession of Faith
- Mass
- Chapter 5: Tuesday
- The Flowers are Running!
- Picnic at the Neurology Clinic
- A Poem in Mourning for a Lost Child
- Fleeing Together
- Chapter 6: Wednesday
- The Art of the Fugue
- Surgeon on the Side
- Terrorist for Justice
- Kidnap the Kidnapper!
- Purulent Streptococcus
- Chapter 7: Thursday
- Organs Please
- The Grave of Yoshio Kita
- Frankenstein from Middle School
- The Connoisseur Food Eccentric
- The Death Artist
- Chapter 8: Friday
- Don't Tickle my Corpse
- Chapter 9: Someday
- Solitude by Choice
- The Cruelty of Freedom
- END MATTER
- What Is "Death by Choice"?
