YOSHIDA SHUICHI

El puerto de Mitsuse, en el sur de Japón, había estado siempre envuelto en historias de fantasmas. En 2002, una mañana de invierno, aparece estrangulada Yoshino Ishibashi. La policía de Nagasaki detiene enseguida a Yuichi Shimizu por asesinato en primer grado. El caso parece resuelto, pero el avance de la investigacion sacara a la luz una perturbadora red de personajes en la que no es facil distinguir entre victimas y culpables. El sospechoso, un trabajador de la construccion al cuidado de los abuelos que lo criaron, vive obsesionado por los coches y por la empleada de un centro de masajes eroticos que frecuenta. La victima, una joven agente comercial, mantiene una doble vida a traves de paginas de contactos por internet. Y Mitsuyo, una mujer desesperada, prefi ere cerrar los ojos ante la certeza de que el amor de su vida puede convertirse en su propio asesino. Con el trasfondo de un espectral Japon de nuestros dias, Yoshida construye una novela negra de altura que agarra por el cuello al lector y le hace asomarse a algunas de las zonas mas oscuras de la sociedad contemporanea.

Four twenty-somethings share an apartment in Tokyo. In Parade each tells their story: their lives, their hopes and fears, their loves, their secrets. Kotomi waits by the phone for a boyfriend who never calls. Ryosuke wants someone that he can't have. Mirai spends her days drawing and her nights hanging out in gay bars. Naoki works for a film company, and everyone treats him like an elder brother. Then Satoru turns up. He's eighteen, homeless, and does night work of a very particular type. In the next-door apartment something disturbing is going on. And outside, in the streets around their apartment block, there is violence in the air. From the writer of the cult classic Villain, Parade is a tense, disturbing, thrilling tale of life in the city.

Four twenty-somethings share an apartment in Tokyo. In Parade each tells their story: their lives, their hopes and fears, their loves, their secrets. Kotomi waits by the phone for a boyfriend who never calls. Ryosuke wants someone that he cant have. Mirai spends her days drawing and her nights hanging out in gay bars. Naoki works for a film company, and everyone treats him like an elder brother. Then Satoru turns up. Hes eighteen, homeless, and does night work of a very particular type.In the next-door apartment something disturbing is going on. And outside, in the streets around their apartment block, there is violence in the air. From the writer of the cult classic Villain, Parade is a tense, disturbing, thrilling tale of life in the city.

A young woman is brutally murdered on a remote mountain road. A young construction worker, Yuichi, is on the run - but is he guilty?This is the dark heart of Japan; a world of seedy sex hotels and decaying seaside towns; a world of loneliness, violence and desperation. As the police close in on Yuichi and his new lover, the stories of the victim, the murderer and their families are uncovered. But these men and women are never what they appear to be...