Lady Joker, Volume 2
(Sprache: Englisch)
A novel that portrays with devastating immensity how those on the dark fringes of society can be consumed by the darkness of their own hearts.
Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police
This second half of Lady Joker, by Kaoru...
Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police
This second half of Lady Joker, by Kaoru...
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A novel that portrays with devastating immensity how those on the dark fringes of society can be consumed by the darkness of their own hearts. Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police
This second half of Lady Joker, by Kaoru Takamura, the Grand Dame of Japanese crime fiction, concludes the breathtaking saga introduced in Volume I.
Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case that terrorized Japan for two years, Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of this watershed episode in modern Japanese history and brings into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the victims, the perpetrators, the heroes and the villains. As the shady networks linking corporations to syndicates are brought to light, the stakes rise, and some of the professionals we have watched try to fight their way through this crisis will lose everything some even their lives. Will the culprits ever be brought to justice? More importantly what is justice?
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It was before 12:02 a.m. on May 8th, shortly after Kubo had returned from his check-in for the evening session, when he got a heads-up from the First Mobile Investigation Unit. His source, the assistant police inspector, said in a quick whisper, Lady Joker s on the move. They ve demanded six hundred million in cash. Lady what? Kubo grabbed a notepad that was nearby.
The assistant inspector repeated the English words. Lady as in first lady. Then joker as in the trump card. Lady Joker. That s what the crime group is calling themselves.
Kubo passed around the notepad on which he had scribbled Hinode suspects = Lady Joker to his colleagues in the press nook, then resumed firing questions into the receiver. Was the demand made with a letter or over the phone?
A sealed letter. In a business envelope. It was thrown inside the front gate of their Kyoto factory this morning.
What time was it discovered?
Five-thirty a.m. A guard found it.
What did it say? Please!
They want six hundred million in used bills. The handoff will take place at eleven p.m. on the ninth. A white station wagon will be used to transport the money. Only one person in the car. Location will be somewhere in Koto district. That s all I can tell you.
Where will the car leave from? The main office? A branch office? A factory? We can tail it.
That s the best I can do, sorry. His source cut off there, but Kubo could guess that the white station wagon with the payload would leave from either Hinode s main office, its Tokyo branch, Yokohama branch, or the Kanagawa factory, and they d know which if they staked out all the possible locations. So long as it took place within the city limits of Tokyo s twenty-three districts, the driver would only
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be able to go so fast on local streets or the highway, making it possible for them to tail the vehicle if they knew which one it was.
Yes, yes! Kuriyama shouted. Chief Sugano was barking orders, without missing a beat. I ll contact the Metro chief. Kubo, you work on the advance articles. Kuriyama and Kondo, you guys assemble the beat reporters, and Kagawa-kun, have a car ready so we can tail them!
Thus, in the moments before the deadline for the final morning edition, the MPD press nook was suddenly galvanized. Even as they spread the road map of Koto district and began to determine stakeout positions near Hinode s main office and branch offices, they fixated on the peculiarity of that name, Lady Joker.
Sounds like what they d call one of those local race horses.
Nah, a video game.
No, no, a female pro wrestler.
Despite these quips, the name boggled their imaginations. A female joker, of all things.
The following morning, the 9th, at the regular press conference, the chief inspector of First Investigation spoke only about developments in their interrogation of leaders of the religious cult and their involvement in the subway poison-gas terror attack, and there was no sign from the rival papers that they had gotten hold of any leads related to Hinode.
Before noon, taking stock of information gathered from their reporters staked out at the various locations, the news crew determined that the highest number of unmarked police cars w
Yes, yes! Kuriyama shouted. Chief Sugano was barking orders, without missing a beat. I ll contact the Metro chief. Kubo, you work on the advance articles. Kuriyama and Kondo, you guys assemble the beat reporters, and Kagawa-kun, have a car ready so we can tail them!
Thus, in the moments before the deadline for the final morning edition, the MPD press nook was suddenly galvanized. Even as they spread the road map of Koto district and began to determine stakeout positions near Hinode s main office and branch offices, they fixated on the peculiarity of that name, Lady Joker.
Sounds like what they d call one of those local race horses.
Nah, a video game.
No, no, a female pro wrestler.
Despite these quips, the name boggled their imaginations. A female joker, of all things.
The following morning, the 9th, at the regular press conference, the chief inspector of First Investigation spoke only about developments in their interrogation of leaders of the religious cult and their involvement in the subway poison-gas terror attack, and there was no sign from the rival papers that they had gotten hold of any leads related to Hinode.
Before noon, taking stock of information gathered from their reporters staked out at the various locations, the news crew determined that the highest number of unmarked police cars w
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Autoren-Porträt von Kaoru Takamura
Kaoru Takamura was born in Osaka in 1953 and is the author of thirteen novels. Her debut, Grab the Money and Run, won the 1990 Japan Mystery and Suspense Grand Prize, and since then her work has been recognized with many of Japan s most prestigious awards for literary fiction as well as for crime fiction: the Naoki Prize, the Noma Literary Award, the Yomiuri Prize, the Shinran Prize, the Jiro Osaragi Prize, the Mystery Writers of Japan Award, and the Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize. Lady Joker, her first novel to be translated into English, received the Mainichi Arts Award and has been adapted into both a film and a television series.Allison Markin Powell is a literary translator, editor, and publishing consultant. She has been awarded grants from English PEN and the NEA, and the 2020 PEN America Translation Prize for The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami. Her other translations include works by Osamu Dazai, Kanako Nishi, and Fuminori Nakamura. She was the guest editor for the first Japan issue of Words Without Borders, and she maintains the database Japanese Literature in English.
Marie Iida has served as an interpreter for the New York Times bestselling author Marie Kondo s Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary series, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. Her nonfiction translations have appeared in Nang, MoMA Post, Eureka and over half a dozen monographs on contemporary Japanese artists and architects, including Yayoi Kusama, Toyo Ito, and Kenya Hara for Rizzoli New York. Marie currently writes a monthly column for Gentosha Plus about communicating in English as a native Japanese speaker.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kaoru Takamura
- 2022, Internationale Ausgabe, Maße: 14,3 x 21,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Allison Markin Powell, Marie Iida
- Verlag: Soho Crime
- ISBN-10: 1641293934
- ISBN-13: 9781641293938
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.10.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Praise for Lady Joker, Volume 2TIME Magazine's 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time
CrimeReads Best International Crime Fiction of 2022
A CrimeReads Best Crime Novel of 2022
A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2022
A sprawling, absorbing saga . . . Examines a vast web of characters affected by a kidnapping and sabotage case in Tokyo. The action moves fluidly from news desks to corporate offices, as the police and press track a shadowy crime group calling itself Lady Joker.
The Washington Post
Like all literature, readers will take what they want from Takamura s critique of Japanese society, but at the heart of the epic novel is a gripping crime story where the actual crime itself is almost secondary to the psychological ripples it sends through the boardrooms, police stations, press offices and homes of anyone connected. This is much more of a whydunit than a whodunit and one that was well worth the wait.
The Japan Times
Takamura joins American writers James Ellroy, author of American Tabloid, and Don Winslow, author of several novels about the drug trade, to illuminate a society in which power and money matter far more than morality. All three write mysteries that also function as morality plays . . . Bravura.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Brilliantly dark.
Ms. Magazine
[A] crime saga with impressive sweep.
The Complete Review
A complex work of stunning breadth and depth by a master of the genre.
Kirkus Reviews
Admirers of intricate crime fiction, which both engages the intellect and offers insights into the hidden parts of a society, will hope for further translations of this gifted author s work.
Publishers Weekly
Praise for Lady Joker, Volume 1
Hinging on a kidnapping plot, Takamura s prismatic heist novel offers a broad indictment of capitalist society.
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The New York Times
[Lady Joker] is a work you get immersed in, like a sprawling 19th century novel or a TV series like The Wire. It reveals its world in rich polyphonic detail. Inspired by a real-life case, it takes us inside half a dozen main characters, follows scads of secondary ones and enters bars and boardrooms we could never otherwise go . . . Yet for all its digressions, Lady Joker casts a page-turning spell.
John Powers, NPR s Fresh Air
Like Ellroy s American Tabloid and Carr s The Alienist, the book uses crime as a prism to examine dynamic periods of social history . . . Takamura s blistering indictment of capitalism, corporate corruption and the alienation felt by characters on both sides of the law from institutions they once believed would protect them resonates surprisingly with American culture.
Paula Woods, Los Angeles Times
Like Don DeLillo s Underworld, Takamura s sprawling saga situates its crime plot in the context of corruption . . . A complex work of stunning breadth and depth by a master of the genre.
Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
[Lady Joker] is a work you get immersed in, like a sprawling 19th century novel or a TV series like The Wire. It reveals its world in rich polyphonic detail. Inspired by a real-life case, it takes us inside half a dozen main characters, follows scads of secondary ones and enters bars and boardrooms we could never otherwise go . . . Yet for all its digressions, Lady Joker casts a page-turning spell.
John Powers, NPR s Fresh Air
Like Ellroy s American Tabloid and Carr s The Alienist, the book uses crime as a prism to examine dynamic periods of social history . . . Takamura s blistering indictment of capitalism, corporate corruption and the alienation felt by characters on both sides of the law from institutions they once believed would protect them resonates surprisingly with American culture.
Paula Woods, Los Angeles Times
Like Don DeLillo s Underworld, Takamura s sprawling saga situates its crime plot in the context of corruption . . . A complex work of stunning breadth and depth by a master of the genre.
Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
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