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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Unpleasant story. ( ) The Kingdom is a companion novel to Nakamura's The Thief, which I read and enjoyed a few years ago. While I don't really see the connections the author is claiming, it works perfectly well as a stand-alone novel. Yurika is a prostitute who has got caught up in blackmailing operation where she seduces powerful clients, drugs them and hands them incriminating photos to her criminal bosses. She has no idea what happens with the photos. As she gets drawn deeper into this shadowy operation she encounters a man who went to the same orphanage as her and this, in turn, sees her entangled with a sadistic killer. Yurika's attempts to extricate herself make for a taut story that still allows the author to paint in a backstory on how she got to be in her position. Nakamura writes economical prose and doesn't beat around the bush, and this novel moves at a rattling pace. A very short novel about a women who is involved in the criminal world. She poses as a hooker, drugs her customers, and then takes compromising pictures of them. She is employed by an underworld figure who then extorts the victims. The tables are turned on her by the head of another crime syndicate who knows something about her past. The novel is written in simple declarative style. references to the moon recall the role of the lunar in 1Q84. The story moved fast -- a little too fast for any real character development. Some of the exchanges tried to engage philosophical ideas about identity and desire, but never really clicked with me. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
"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?"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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