Kazuya Takino leads a quiet life running a supermarket in the Tokyo suburbs. But when an extortionist tries to force him out of business, he finds himself drawn into the yakuza underworld-a world he once called home and thought he had left behind. Pursuing him is Detective Takagi, an aficionado of French cigarettes and modernist poetry, the most decorated inspector on the Tokyo police force. As the shadowy Maruwa gang engages Takino in an escalating cycle of violence and retaliation, Detective Takagi can only stand by and watch as the beast within Takino is lured further and further out of his cage.
A towering masterpiece of the hardboiled genre, The Cage is at once a searing portrayal of the violence of the Japanese underworld and a tender mediation of the ties of love and friend that can save men from madness-or plunge them deeper into it.
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Kenzo Kitakata is the undisputed don of hardboiled and mystery writing in Japan, where he has received numerous literary awards. The Cage won the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award and is his third novel to appear in English. His American debut Ashes was one of Las Vegas Mercury's 10 Best Novels of 2003, a BookSense Selection, and a Village Voice Summer Read.
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Paperback. Etat : Good. Kazuya Takino used to be a yakuza gangster but all he wants now is a quiet life running a supermarket. For the time being, the |Manager Takino| persona seems to hold up, but when someone attempts to blackmail his store, the beast in him chafes against the bars of the cage he's put himself in. Once he leaves the cage he can never go back in. Pursuing Takino is Detective Takagi, smoker of French cigarettes and reader of stark modernist poems. Takino is what every man fantasises himself to be, Takagi is what he can soberly aspire to become. N° de réf. du vendeur CIN1932234241G
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