Everything in Japan takes place at a different pace, under different formal, moral and consequently social parameters. The black gender was not going to be an exception. What it offers us Hideo yokoyama In this novel originally published in 2016 (and simmered to success by the virtuosos of noir rather than the most explosive upstarts) is a tourist guide. A travel plan through those interiors where the aberration of the human being spreads like a thick blackish stain. A stain that is soon covered and buried under layers and layers of imposed stoicity and bitter imposture.
Because even violence must keep its rules in Japan, heir to its spirituality transmitted like an electric current that runs through everything from the wells of the internal forum to the last gesture of the hand or the glance. And everything that does not conform to it must be forgotten, even a crime that tortures a long-suffering father ...
Synopsis
In January 1989, a seven-year-old girl was abducted north of Tokyo. The parents never learned the identity of the kidnapper. Nor did they see their daughter again. Code name of the case: Six Four.
More than a decade later, the police press chief is forced to go back to the event, the stigma of which has not faded over time: the failure of the investigation continues to be a source of scandal. But the veteran Mikami no longer aspires to solve the crime, he only wants to reach out to the victim's family and contribute in some way to cleaning up the body's reputation. However, after detecting an irregularity in the file, Mikami will end up revealing the motive for a crime that contains unimaginable secrets.
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