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| Title | : | The Thief |
| Author | : | Fuminori Nakamura |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 211 pages |
| Published | : | March 20th 2012 by Soho Crime (first published 2009) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Mystery. Crime. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Thriller |
Fuminori Nakamura
Hardcover | Pages: 211 pages Rating: 3.52 | 4729 Users | 652 Reviews
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A literary crime masterpiece that follows a Japanese pickpocket lost to the machinations of fate. Bleak and oozing existential dread, The Thief is simply unforgettable.The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he chooses his victims. He has no family, no friends, no connections.... But he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when Ishikawa, his first partner, reappears in his life, and offers him a job he can’t refuse. It’s an easy job: tie up an old rich man, steal the contents of the safe. No one gets hurt. Only the day after the job does he learn that the old man was a prominent politician, and that he was brutally killed after the robbery. And now the Thief is caught in a tangle even he might not be able to escape.
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| Original Title: | 掏摸（スリ） |
| ISBN: | 1616950218 (ISBN13: 9781616950217) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Mystery/Thriller (2012), Prix Zoom Japon for Littérature (2013), Ōe Kenzaburō Prize 大江健三郎賞 (2010) |
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Ratings: 3.52 From 4729 Users | 652 ReviewsDiscuss Epithetical Books The Thief
At its core The Thief aims to be a philosophical neo-noir, but in the end it simply proves too bland to pass the test. The protagonist and narrator of the book is a seasoned Tokyo pickpocket, and also a total enigma: he has no family and very few friends, and for most of the book we do not even learn hi name. He moves throughout the crowd, dressed in good suits, and steals money from other people in good suits, who remain as anonymous to him as he is to us.Most of the intrigue in the early partsDespite being regularly underwhelmed by Japanese crime fiction, I continue to pick it up in the hopes of finding a writer or story that clicks. Unfortunately, this book proved to be another dud. The story follows a highly talented pickpocket who meets up with an old friend/criminal and gets sucked into a scheme masterminded by a mysterious man. He is made the proverbial offer he can't refuse -- a series of increasingly difficult thefts that he must complete or he will be killed. This could
At its core The Thief aims to be a philosophical neo-noir, but in the end it simply proves too bland to pass the test. The protagonist and narrator of the book is a seasoned Tokyo pickpocket, and also a total enigma: he has no family and very few friends, and for most of the book we do not even learn hi name. He moves throughout the crowd, dressed in good suits, and steals money from other people in good suits, who remain as anonymous to him as he is to us.Most of the intrigue in the early parts
In this wonderful piece of Japanese noir, Nakamura creates a reclusive and very skilful pickpocket who reaches a type of epiphany when he encounters a sex worker drug addict and her neglected young son on the streets of Tokyo. At the same time the thief is persuaded to join a scheme which ends up dealing with the citys criminal underworld. Its far from being a traditional mystery, and so much better for it, written with a minimalist style that admirably fits a huge amount into 200 pages.
Japanese noir! Not only must the skill of the author be admired, but that of the translators who took a Japanese novel, albeit a short novel, and turned it into an English-language novel. I don't know if in Japanese it had the same feel to it, the same Rhythm, the same cadence, but it has a real sense to it in English, a real feel To it rather than simply being an awkward translation. It's an unusual novel and rather than being an action piece, it is a slow languid ode to a man who is a solitary
One of my goals for 2017 is to read more Asian translated fiction, a goal that I'm thus far failing at SPECTACULARLY. I've also been in the mood for a ton of thrillers recently, so when I stumbled across this thriller on my local library's Overdrive - a thriller that's set in Japan and has been translated from Japanese - I was instantly sold. To be honest, I mostly found this...confusing. Like, you're thrown straight into the action. I think the protagonist's name is mentioned MAYBE once? In
Disappointing read!Randomly came across this one and thought of trying out a new Japanese author. Blame it on Mr Murakami and recent love affair with Mangas (Death Note, Buddha, Uzumaki, Monster...)What went wrong?This guy is a professional pickpocket, addicted to stealing, and goes for multiple targets in a single walk, without even waiting to digest the impact of the previous steal. To an extent that he sometimes doesn't even remember how this wallet landed with him.The initial pickpocket
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