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Naoko by Keigo Higashino (2004, Trade Paperback)
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Naoko by Keigo Higashino | Paperback First Edition, Second Printing 2004 Very Good Condition No writing or highlighting on the pages.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKodansha America, Incorporated
ISBN-101932234071
ISBN-139781932234077
eBay Product ID (ePID)30224221
Product Key Features
Book TitleNaoko
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHumorous / Black Humor, Horror, Ghost, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year2004
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorKeigo Higashino
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight11.3 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsWinner of the Japan Mystery Writers Award “Higashino is a deft conjurer of human relationships, and while this is first and foremost a tale of grief- thankfully, no one calls Naoko a story of redemption-he infuses it with spasms of sharp humor.� -East Bay Express “The novel flips suddenly&in wonderfully pleasing fashion, from pathetic tragedy to social satire and domestic comedy with themes of love, work, sex and education. How could we have ever imagined, without the help of a novel like this, that Japanese life could be so fraught with suffering and so entertaining all at once?� -Alan Cheuse for the Dallas Morning News "It's the realness of the characters ..that makes the fantastic story more believable and harder to put down." - Mecha Mecha Media Blogspot, "It's the realness of the characters ..that makes the fantastic story more believable and harder to put down." -Mecha Mecha Media Blogspot, Winner of the Japan Mystery Writers Award "Higashino is a deft conjurer of human relationships, and while this is first and foremost a tale of grief- thankfully, no one calls Naoko a story of redemption-he infuses it with spasms of sharp humor." -East Bay Express "The novel flips suddenly…in wonderfully pleasing fashion, from pathetic tragedy to social satire and domestic comedy with themes of love, work, sex and education. How could we have ever imagined, without the help of a novel like this, that Japanese life could be so fraught with suffering and so entertaining all at once?" -Alan Cheuse for the Dallas Morning News "It's the realness of the characters ..that makes the fantastic story more believable and harder to put down." - Mecha Mecha Media Blogspot, Winner of the Japan Mystery Writers Award "Higashino is a deft conjurer of human relationships, and while this is first and foremost a tale of grief-- thankfully, no one calls Naoko a story of redemption--he infuses it with spasms of sharp humor." --East Bay Express "The novel flips suddenly...in wonderfully pleasing fashion, from pathetic tragedy to social satire and domestic comedy with themes of love, work, sex and education. How could we have ever imagined, without the help of a novel like this, that Japanese life could be so fraught with suffering and so entertaining all at once?" --Alan Cheuse for the Dallas Morning News "It's the realness of the characters ..that makes the fantastic story more believable and harder to put down." - Mecha Mecha Media Blogspot
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromEleventh Grade
Dewey Decimal895.6/35
SynopsisWinner of the Japan Mystery Writers Award, Naoko is a black comedy of hidden minds and lives. Navigating the interstices between the real and the unreal with perfect plot twists, this page-turner is also a critique of gender relations by a male Japanese writer, one of their best-sellng. An everyman, Heisuke works hard at a factory job to provide for his wife, Naoko, and young daughter, Monami. He takes pleasure from the small things, like breakfast with both of them after a night shift. His placid life is rocked when, looking up from his microwave dinner one evening, he realizes the TV news that he wasn't paying attention to is reporting a catastrophic bus accident and the names of his loved ones. When Monami finally wakes from a coma, she seems to think she's Naoko, who has died protecting her daughter. More disturbingly, the girl knows things only Naoko could know. The family life that resumes between the modest man and a companion who looks like his daughter bu seems like his dead wife is ticklish-funny until it begins hurtling toward a soul-shattering end. In addition to winning Japan's top mystery prize, Naoko inspired a blockbuster movie. Read this work, a match for the later Bunuel, to find out why Higashino is considered the most ambitious and versatile mystery hand at work in Japan., Detective story writer and winner of the prestigious Japan Mystery Writers Association Award, Higashino has created in Naoko a surreal story of a man whose dead wife's soul seems to have taken up residence in his daughter. A funny, poignant and intelligent commentary on gender relations that develops through ingenious plot twists, this novel was a major bestseller in Japan., Detective story writer and winner of the,prestigious Japan Mystery Writers Association,Award, Higashino has created in Naoko a surreal,story of a man whose dead wife's soul seems to,have taken up residence in his daughter. A funny,poignant and intelligent commentary on gender,relations that develops through ingenious plot,twists, this novel was a major bestseller in,Japan.
LC Classification NumberPL852
