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02489aam a2200325 i 4500 001 DD111C4C084B11EFBCAD05DA2DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240502011849 008 230122s2024 enk 000 f eng d 020 $a 9781913394936 (softcover) 020 $a 191339493X 035 $a (OCoLC)1358748413 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d MNN $d OCLCO $d BKL $d NZLPP $d OCLCO $d GO4 $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h jpn 050 4 $a PL856.A8 $b Z313 2024 082 04 $a 895.635 $2 23 100 1 $a Matsumoto, SeichoÌ, $d 1909-1992, $e author. 240 10 $a Zero no shoÌten. $l English 245 10 $a Point zero / $c SeichoÌ Matsumoto ; translated by Louise Heal Kawai. 260 $a London : $b Bitter Lemon Press, $c 2024. 300 $a 286 pages ; $c 20 cm 500 $a Originally published in Japanese as Zero no shoÌten, 1959. 520 $a "A triumph by Seicho Matsumoto, the master of Japanese mystery writing. A beautifully written crime novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution catering to GIs during the American post-war occupation. First published in Japanese in 1959, the novel abandoned the template of closed-room mysteries so popular in pre-war Japan to embrace social criticism. In a radical departure from tradition, the novel has a female protagonist, a housewife seeking to find her missing husband. Respectful of the proprieties expected of a Japanese woman of the time, but stubborn, intrepid and a naturally intuitive sleuth. Tokyo, 1958. Teiko marries Kenichi Uhara, ten years her senior, an advertising man recommended by a go-between. After a four-day honeymoon, Kenichi vanishes. Teiko travels to the coastal and snow-bound city of Kanazawa, where Kenichi was last seen, to investigate his disappearance. When Kenichi's brother comes to help her, he is murdered, poisoned in his hotel room. Soon, Teiko discovers that her husband's disappearance is tied up with the so-called "pan-pan girls", women who worked as prostitutes catering to American GIs after the war. Now, ten years later, as the country is recovering, there are those who are willing to take extreme measures to hide that past." -- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Missing persons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Married people $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Kawai, Louise Heal, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240502012344.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DD111C4C084B11EFBCAD05DA2DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search