Ashes Hardcover by Kenzo Kitakata; Translated by Emi Shimokawa

Product Details

• Publisher: Vertical (2003-06-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 224 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781932234022
• Item Weight: 312.98 grams
• Dimensions: 8.72 x 5.82 x 0.88 cm

The vice and virtues of middle age are espied with an eagle eye in this hardboiled story about a mid-career gangster. Unfolding through chiseled sketches and run through with tantalizing motifs, Kitakata's masterpiece follows the fortunes of a yakuza mobster as his moment of truth approaches. Cool, real, and cleansing, Ashes is a literary tonic.

About the Author

Kenzo Kitakata is the undisputed don of hardboiled and mystery writing in Japan. Immensly popular wiht mature readers both male and female, his works have won numerous literary awards.