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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Takamura, Kaoru, 1953- author.     Subjects     Beer industry -- Japan -- Fiction.     Kidnapping -- Fiction.     Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction.     Revenge -- Fiction.     Japan -- Social conditions -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Takamura, Kaoru, 1953- author.       by title:      Lady Joker / Kaoru T...         MARC Display

Lady Joker / Kaoru Takamura ; translated from the Japanese by Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell. by Takamura, Kaoru, 1953- author. New York, NY : Soho Crime, 2021- Subjects Beer industry -- Japan -- Fiction.   Kidnapping -- Fiction.   Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction.   Revenge -- Fiction.   Japan -- Social conditions -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781616957018 volume 1 ; hardcover 1616957018 volume 1 ; hardcover 9781641290296 volume 2 ; hardcover 1641290293 volume 2 ; hardcover Description:  volumes ; 22 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "This tour-de-force is widely regarded as the quintessential post-WWII Japanese novel. A plan to kidnap a major corporation's CEO becomes an allegory for the alienation of the individual self, a mirror to modern-day Japanese identity. In 1995 in Tokyo, five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on the horses. They have little in common except a disaffection with their lives. One is a poorly socialized but genius factory welder. One is a demoted detective with a chip on his shoulder. One is an ethnically Korean banker who is tired of being ostracized for his race. One is a truck driver who struggles to make ends meet; he is also the harried single parent of a teenage girl with down's syndrome. The fifth man, Monoi, a sixty-five-year-old drug store owner, is the one who brings them all together. Monoi has a hard past and a tragic present. He grew up in poverty during the war, and gave the best years of his life working for companies that didn't take care of him. Last summer, his only grandson was killed in a highly suspicious one-person car accident; shortly after, Monoi's son-in-law, the boy's father, a successful dentist, committed suicide after a correspondence with Hinode Beer Company, a huge conglomerate where his son had been interviewing. Snooping around, Monoi discovers a very strange chain of communication between his dead son-in-law and a blackmailer over a forgotten family secret. Monoi, alone in the world and intent on revenge, decides to put together a heist that will victimize the corporate behemoth that stole his family: he will kidnap Hinode's CEO and extract blood money from the corrupt financiers who back it. He enlists his four disaffected friends to help pull it off"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status Due Date   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Fiction Takamura   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Adult Fiction Takamura V.1 Checked out 06/20/2024 Add Copy to MyList Kapaa Public Library Adult Fiction Takamura   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Fiction Takamura   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Fiction Takamura   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Fiction Takamura   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Manoa Public Library Adult Fiction Takamura v.1 Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Fiction Takamura   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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