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Point Zero

By Matsumoto, Seicho|Heal Kawai, Louise
Point Zero

Details

Authors: Matsumoto, Seicho|Heal Kawai, Louise
Format: Paperback
GTIN13: 9781913394936
ISBN10: 191339493X
Page Count: 320
Dimensions: 5.0x1.0x7.7
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press

Description

"A master crime writer...Seichō Matsumoto's thrillers dissect Japanese society."--The New York Times. A beautifully written mystery novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution catering to GIs during the American post-war occupation.

Tokyo 1958, Teiko marries Kenichi Uhara, ten years her senior, an advertising man recommended by an intermediary. 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.

She discovers he had been a police officer in Tokyo after the war, keeping watch over pan pan girls, Japanese prostitutes catering to GIs. Some of these women have created a new life in Kanazawa and may have taken extreme measures to hide their past.

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