Hideo Yokoyama, trans. from the Japanese by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (576p) ISBN 978-0-374-26551-9
Japanese author Yokoyama makes his U.S. debut with a massive and complex police procedural set in 2003 in one of Japan’s prefectures. Supt. Yoshinobu Mikami, who has been transferred from criminal investigations to media relations at Prefecture D...
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Hideo Yokoyama, trans. from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai. MCD, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-374-26124-5
Based on the author’s own experiences as a reporter assigned to cover the crash of a Japanese passenger airliner, this engrossing thriller from Yokoyama (Six Four) focuses on newsroom tensions. By 1985, it has been five years since Kazumasa Yuuki,...
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Hideo Yokoyama, trans. from the Japanese by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies. MCD X, $17 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-374237-04-2
The four novellas in Yokoyama’s disappointing collection, set in 1998 in the same fictional universe as his kidnap thriller, Six Four, all focus on members of the Japanese police. In “Season of Shadows,” the administrative branch of the Prefecture D
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