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Shuichi Yoshida

    Shūichi Yoshida is a master of prose, whose works delve deeply into the human psyche, exploring complex relationships. His style is known for its incisiveness and his ability to capture unspoken emotional nuances. Yoshida focuses on themes of loneliness, identity, and the search for meaning in the contemporary world, with his narratives often revealing characters' hidden motivations. His unique talent for crafting suspenseful yet profoundly human stories makes him one of Japan's most significant contemporary authors.

    Parade
    Villain
    • 2014

      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.

      Parade
    • 2010

      Villain

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.8(82)Add rating

      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...

      Villain