The night of Baba Yaga
Ōtani, Akira, 1981-2024
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Fierce, mixed-race fighter Shindo has been kidnapped by the yakuza. After brutally beating most of them in an attempt to escape, she is forced to work as a bodyguard to protect the gang boss's sheltered daughter Shoko, a strange, friendless eighteen-year-old who could order Shindo's death in a moment. At first Shindo derides Shoko's naivete, but as the men around them grow ever more bloodthirsty and controlling, she becomes ferociously devoted to her charge. However, she knows that if things continue as they are, neither woman can expect to survive much longer. But could there ever be a different life for two people like them? Akira Otani's English-language debut is an explosive thriller that moves boldly across time and gender to tell an exhilarating story about devotion, violence - and getting free.
Main title:
The night of Baba Yaga / Akira Otani ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett.
Author:
Ōtani, Akira, 1981-, authorBett, Sam, 1986-, translator
Work:
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber Ltd., 2024.©2024
Collation:
206 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
First published in Japanese as Baba yaga no yoru.In English, translated from the Japanese.
ISBN:
9780571391073 (pbk)9780571391073 (pbk)9780571391073 (paperback)
Dewey class:
895.636
Language:
EnglishJapanese
Added title:
Subject:
BRN:
816620
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | Fiction | OTAN | Available |
| Library at the Dock | Fiction | OTAN | Available |
| narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | Fiction | OTAN | Available |
| North Melbourne Library | Fiction | OTAN | Available |