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- The kingdom / by Nakamura, Fuminori,1977-author.; Almony, Kalau,translator.;
Bibliography: page 217."Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute, carefully targeting potential Johns, selecting powerful and high-profile men. When she is alone with them, she drugs them and takes incriminating photos to sell for blackmail purposes. She knows very little about the organization she's working for, and is perfectly satisfied with the arrangement, as long as it means she doesn't have to reveal anything about her identity, either. She operates alone, doing her best to lock away painful memories. But when a figure from Yurika's past emerges, she realizes there is someone out there who knows all her secrets: her losses, her motivations, her every move. There are whispers of a crime lord named Kizaki--"a monster," she is told--and Yurika finds herself trapped in a game of cat and mouse. Is she wily enough to escape one of the most feared men in Tokyo?"--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Organized crime;
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- Cult X / by Nakamura, Fuminori,1977-author.(CARDINAL)355119; Almony, Kalau,translator.(CARDINAL)355120;
Includes bibliographical references."The magnum opus by Akutagawa Prize-winner Fuminori Nakamura, Cult X is a story that dives into the psychology of fringe religion, obsession, and social disaffection. When Toru Narazaki's girlfriend, Ryoko, disappears, he tries to track her down, despitethe warnings of a private detective he's hired to find her. Ryoko's past is shrouded in mystery, but the one concrete clue to her whereabouts is a previous address where she lived: in a compound in the heart of Tokyo, with a group that seems to be a cultled by a charismatic guru with a revisionist Buddhist scheme of life, death, and society. Narazaki plunges into the secretive world of the cult, ready to expose himself to any of the guru's brainwashing tactics if it means he can learn the truth about Ryoko. But the cult isn't what he expected, and he has no idea of the bubbling violence beneath its surface. Inspired by the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, Cult X is an exploration of what draws individuals into extremism. This multi-faceted novel is nothing less than a tour de force, capturing the connections between astrophysics, neuroscience, and religion. It is an invective against predatory corporate consumerism and exploitative geopolitics, and it is a love story about compassion in the face of nihilism"--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Detective and mystery fiction.; Cults; Terrorism; Criminals;
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- Astral season, beastly season / by Saihate, Tahi,1986-author.(CARDINAL)894378; Almony, Kalau,translator.(CARDINAL)355120;
"A long time ago, in a passage for either English or modern Japanese class, I read that at seventeen you stop being human. You stop being human and you become either a star or a beast." --- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Short stories.; Novels.; Teenage boys;
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