The rope artist
Nakamura, Fuminori, 1977-2023
Book
"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.
Main title:
The rope artist / Fuminori Nakamura ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett.
Author:
Nakamura, Fuminori, 1977-, authorBett, Sam, 1986-, translator
Work:
Imprint:
New York, NY : Soho Crime, [2023]©2023
Collation:
281 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Notes:
Originally published in Japanese as: Sono saki no michi ni kieru.Original Japanse edition published by Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278).Translated from the Japanese.
ISBN:
9781641294140 (pbk)9781641294140 (paperback)
Dewey class:
895.636
LC class:
PL873.5.A339
Language:
EnglishJapanese
Added title:
Subject:
BRN:
770445
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Library | Fiction | NAKA | Available |
| Library at the Dock | Fiction | NAKA | Available |
| narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | Fiction | NAKA | On loan - Due: 07 Jul 2026 |