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THE DEVOTION OF SUSPECT X - Keigo Higashino - The Japanese Thriller Phenomenon
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No. of Pages: 374 Pages;
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Publisher: Abacus (2017);
Language: English;
ISBN-10: 0349138737;
ISBN-13: 978-0349138732
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Read the book that sold over 2 million copies in Japan and became a national obsession.
Set in the city of Tokyo, The Devotion Of Suspect X is a Japanese thriller novel, with the plot and the characters shrouded in an aura of mystery and crime.
The Devotion Of Suspect X (known as Yogisha X No Kenshin in Japanese) is a mystery novel. It narrates the story of Yasuko Hanaoka, a single mother who lives in Tokyo. The story mainly revolves around the battle of wits between a mathematician and a physicist.
Yasuko Hanaoka works in a Bento shop, and her neighbor, Tetsuya Ishigami, a genius mathematician, falls in love with her.
Shinji Togashi, her ex-husband, enters her life again and tries to destroy everything that she has built up. In a fit of rage and in self defense, she murders him. Cornered and helpless, she is then helped by the brilliant Ishigami, who devises a plan to cover up the murder.
Shunpei Kusanagi, a detective with the Tokyo Police, is given the task of decoding the mysterious events of that fateful day, but he is left stumped by the puzzling circumstances that he has been called upon to investigate.
Kusanagi often seeks the help of his friend, a genius physicist named Manabu Yukawa, in solving seemingly impossible cases. But this time, Yukawa secretly decides to take matters into his own hands to help his old friend Ishigami, who is involved in the mysterious case.
Kusanagi seems to have hit a dead end in solving this puzzling case, but whether the genius of Yukawa succeeds is something that remains to be seen.
The Devotion of Suspect X was highly acclaimed and won Higashino many coveted awards including the 134th Naoki Prize and the 6th Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize. It was also awarded the number one status by the 2006 editions of Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! and Honkaku Mystery Best 10, two mystery fiction guidebooks published annually in Japan. In the year 2008, it was made into a Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Nishitani. A Korean film adaptation is also in the pipeline as of May 2012.
One of the biggest-selling Japanese thrillers ever, and the inspiration for a cult film, The Devotion of Suspect X is now being discovered across the World. Its blend of page-turning story, evocative Tokyo setting and utterly surprising ending makes it a must-read for anyone interested in international crime fiction.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Keigo Higashino is a Japanese author, and is well-known for his work in the genre of mystery. His novels are originally written in Japanese.
His other works include Hokago, Himitsu, Henshin, Yogisha X No Kensin, Gen’ya, Yochimu, Seijo No Kyusai, and Byakuyako.
He was born in Osaka, Japan. He worked as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co., and started writing novels during his spare time. In 1985, when he was 27 years of age, he won the Edogawa Rampo Award for his novel Hokago (After School). In addition to mystery novels, he also writes story books and essays for children, although with a different writing style. Some of his novels have been adapted for films and TV drama series. He is currently the President of Mystery Writers of Japan.
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Japanese Stieg Larsson - The Times;
An extraordinary thriller. It will linger long in the memory. - Independent on Sunday;
Intricate and beguiling... if you like riddles inside enigmas, it will please you no end. - Guardian;
The ending is a killer twist. - Metro.
| SKU Code | PRK B 4161 |
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| Weight in Kg | 0.240000 |
| Dispatch Period in Days | 3 |
| Brand | Bookwomb |
| ISBN No. | 9780349138732 |
| Author Name | Keigo Higashino. Translated by Alexander O.Smith with Elye J Alexander |
| Publisher Name | LITTLE BROWN BOOK GROUP |
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