Ashes
by Kenzo Kitakata
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Kenzo Kitakata, the undisputed don of Japanese hard-boiled, mystery writing, has never had any of his more than one hundred novels go out of print. Ashes, considered by many to be his masterpiece (adapted for the film Like a Rolling Stone) does for the Japanese Yakuza what The Sopranos does for the American Mafia. Tanaka was once heir to his gang's boss, but has fallen out of favour. Opinionated, irritable, shrewd and lonely, but unconcerned with the typical trophies of the Yakuza way, show more Tanaka is a convincing portrait of a middle-age man in unusual circumstances. show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 1990 (original Japanese) (original Japanese); 2003 (English: Kitakata) (English: Kitakata)
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Mystery, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 895.635 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Japanese Japanese fiction 1945–2000
- LCC
- PL855 .I685 .B613 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Japanese language and literature Japanese literature Individual authors and works
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- Languages
- English, Finnish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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