The rope artist / Fuminori Nakamura ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett.
"Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body-rapidly becoming two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan's underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears a complex cultural history of spirituality, torture, cleansing, and sacrifice. As Togashi, a junior member of the police force, investigates the murder of a kinbaku instructor, he finds himself unable to resist his own private transgressive desires. In contrast, Togashi's colleague Hayama is morally upright to a fault, with a stalwart commitment to the truth. A Sherlock Holmesian detective with nearly superhuman powers of deduction, Hayama notices a dangerous measure of darkness within Togashi and embarks on his own parallel investigation, which soon spirals out of control. Unflinching in its flayed-raw treatment of identity, violence, sexuality, power, the occult, and the divine, Fuminori Nakamura's explosive, complex new mystery is both viscerally painful and unexpectedly hopeful-plus, intriguingly pulpy. As is the case with all Nakamura's work, The Rope Artist has a twisted, tangled plot, and functions as a profoundly philosophical treatise on the most tantalizing, most dangerous elements of the human psyche"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781641293259 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 164129325X (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 281 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York, NY : Soho Crime, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
General Note: | Translation of: Sonosaki no michi ni kieru. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278). |
Language Note: | Translated from the Japanese. |
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Subject: | Serial murderers > Fiction. Sexual fantasies > Fiction. Identity (Psychology) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Erlanger Branch | M NAKAM F (Text) | 33126022636629 | Mystery | Checked out | 05/19/2024 |