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The Thief

The Thief

by Fuminori Nakamura (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

    $104.16
Synopsis

Nishimura is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves through Tokyo's crowded streets, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly that sometimes even he doesn't remember the snatch. To him, people are nameless faces, potential targets. He has no family, no friends, no connections ...But he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when his old partner-in-crime reappears in his life and offers him a job he can't refuse. It should have been easy: break into a penthouse apartment, tie up an old rich man, steal the contents of his safe. Nishimura plays his part. No-one gets hurt. But the day after he learns that the old man - a prominent politician - has been found dead, brutally murdered. Suddenly, Nishimura finds himself is caught up in a crime so tangled that even he might not be able to escape.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: Export Ed - Airside
 Publisher: Corsair
Published: 16 May 2013
ISBN 10: 1472106954
ISBN 13: 9781472106957
Book Overview: A Toyko pickpocket commits one crime too many - and finds himself way out of his depth. A taut, stylish noir thriller from one of the most feted new voices in Japanese fiction.

Media Reviews
A masterpiece in miniature ... wonderfully deft ... The Thief seems destined to become a landmark thriller. Daily Mail An intelligent, compelling and surprisingly moving tale, and highly recommended. -- Laura Wilson The Guardian Nakamura's achievement is to dovetail the various elements in the most adroit of fashions, producing a mesmeric piece of crime fiction and a cold-eyed meditation on modern society in which predatory human nature is accepted as the norm. And the author's fatalistic tone is rounded off with a devastatingly surprising end. The Independent Nakamura is a name to watch. Daily Mirror Japanese fiction is the new Scandicrime - and if The Thief is anything to go by, it is apparently just as dark and plentiful. A detective story told from the other side of the fence, brilliantly spun in the narrative voice of a skilled pickpocket. The Pulse Beautifully written and elegantly crafted The Lady A psychological thriller that will grip your imagination from the very first page. Crime Ficton Lover A meditation on what it is like to be alone and on the nature of fate and free will, and featuring a lead character who would look at home in a 19th century Russian novel.' Big Issue The Thief is a swift piece of crime noir, surprisingly light on grit but weighted by existential dread. It's simple and utterly compelling - great beach reading for the deeply cynical. If you crossed Michael Connelly and Camus and translated it from Japanese. Grantland Nakamura is one of the most award-winning young guns of Japanese hard-boiled detective writing ... his award-winning novel The Thief does for Japanese fiction what John Woo did for Chinese film-making: bringing the darker side to a [western] audience. Daily Beast
Author Bio
Fuminori Nakamura was born in 1977 and graduated from Fukushima University in 2000. In 2002, he won the prestigious Shincho Newcomer's Award for his first novel, A Gun, and in 2005 he won the Akutagawa prize for The Boy in the Earth.The Thief, winner of the 2009 Oe Prize, Japan's most important literary award, is his first novel to be published in English.