Parade
by Shuichi Yoshida
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Pub Date Mar 06 2014 | Archive Date Apr 06 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
Four twenty-somethings share an apartment in Tokyo. In Parade each tells their story: their lives, their hopes and fears, their loves, their secrets.
Kotomi waits by the phone for a boyfriend who never calls. Ryosuke wants someone that he can’t have. Mirai spends her days drawing and her nights hanging out in gay bars. Naoki works for a film company, and everyone treats him like an elder brother. Then Satoru turns up. He’s eighteen, homeless, and does night work of a very particular type.
In the next-door apartment something disturbing is going on. And outside, in the streets around their apartment block, there is violence in the air. From the writer of the cult classic Villain, Parade is a tense, disturbing, thrilling tale of life in the city.
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition - available for readers in the UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada)
Advance Praise
Yoshida has been compared to Stieg Larsson for his pairing of lurid crime and social critique, but his tone is less sensationalist, more melancholic...Yoshida exposes cruelty and alienation at all levels of Japanese society - New Yorker
A gripping psychological thriller which shows a very different Japan from the neon-lit Tokyo we are more used to - Financial Times
It isn't hard to see why it has caused a sensation among readers and critics in Japan. Villain is a superlative crime novel with intriguing twists - Sunday Times
A novelist of truly international stature - The Times
A complex and powerful exploration of the lives of a victim, killer and their families and friends... Villain is a moving and disturbing novel about loneliness, lies and the gap between expectation and reality. Highly recommended - Guardian
The interest for a British audience will lie in the chilly details it reveals about contemporary Japanese society...what comes across so forcefully is the rootlessness and alienation of the youth in Japan - Daily Mail
Marketing Plan
This is Tokyo as you have never seen it before. A masterpiece of tension from the author of the cult classic Villain
Imagine a Japanese version of Friends - with fewer laughs and more violence.
Mass-market appeal: VILLAIN sold 500,000 copies in Japan and Shuichi Yoshida has won both literary and popular prizes
An eery, atmospheric psychological mystery - for fans of Natsuo Kirino and the darker side of Murakami
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781448162314 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
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