Miyuki Miyabe, trans. from the Japanese by Daniel Huddleston. Haikasoru (www.haikasoru.com), $14.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-4215-6742-6
Miyabe's (All She Was Worth) collection of ghost stories is suffused with a palpable, memorable sense of time and place: 18th century lower Tokyo. Translated beautifully by Daniel Huddleston, the book retains a decorous, old sound while conveying...
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Miyuki Miyabe, trans. from the Japanese by Jim Hubbert. Haikasoru, $26.99 (600p) ISBN 978-1-4215-8652-6
Miyabe’s follow-up to 2010’s The Book of Heroes stands well on its own and is thematically timely, but it doesn’t always take its own lessons to heart. Strange occurrences are piling up in present-day Tokyo: an unfamiliar scythe-bearing gargoyle...
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Miyuki Miyabe, Author, Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi, Translator , trans. from the Japanese by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi. Kodansha $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-4-7700-3053-5
Miyabe (All She Was Worth
), Japan's bestselling mystery author, should garner new fans in the U.S. with this eerie tale that recalls some classic Japanese horror films. Mamoru Kusaka, a sensitive and intelligent teen, is troubled by the loss...
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Miyuki Miyabe, Author, Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi, Translator , trans. from the Japanese by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi. Kodansha $24.95 (301p) ISBN 978-4-7700-3104-4
First published in Japan in 1991, Miyabe's taut suspense novel should win her new fans in the U.S. In the atmospheric opening, magazine investigative reporter Shogo Kosaka, who's driving at night through a typhoon that has struck near...
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Miyuki Miyabe, Author, Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi, Translator, Anna Husson Isozaki, Translator , trans. from the Japanese by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi and Anna Husson Isozaki. Kodansha $24.95 (404p) ISBN 978-4-7700-2993-5
This provocative paranormal police procedural from the prolific Miyabe, like her two previous crime novels translated into English (All She Was Worth
and Shadow Family
), examines the dark side of Japanese society. The complex story is seen through
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Miyuki Miyabe, Author, Juliet Winters Carpenter, Translator , trans. from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter. Kodansha $22.95 (192p) ISBN 978-4-7700-3002-3
What starts as a dry police procedural intensifies into an Agatha Christie–style closed-room puzzle in this intriguing look at contemporary Japanese family life from Miyabe (All She Was Worth
). Sergeant Takegami, an accomplished desk jockey,...
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Miyuki Miyabe, Author, E. Floyd, Editor, Alfred T. Birnbaum, Translator Kodansha International (JPN) $22 (264p) ISBN 978-4-7700-1922-6
The horror in this beautifully fashioned tale of stolen identity lies not in the cold-blooded crimes but in the motive--a desperate hunger for consumer goods. Shunsuke Honma, a widowed 43-year-old Tokyo police inspector with a 10-year-old son, is on
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