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03794aam a2200565Ii 4500 001 56DFAF66A4C211EB9FC78A1843ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210424010014 008 210118s2021 nyu 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2020032998 020 $a 1616957018 020 $a 9781616957018 035 $a (OCoLC)1235779537 040 $a TOH $b eng $e rda $c TOH $d BDX $d DYJ $d PX0 $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d GZD $d IOU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h jpn 050 4 $a PL862.A42295 $b R4313 2021 082 04 $a 895.63/5 $2 23 100 1 $a Takamura, Kaoru, $d 1953- $e author. 240 10 $a Redi joka. $l English 245 10 $a Lady Joker. $n Volume one / $c Kaoru Takamura ; translated from the Japanese by Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell. 246 3 $a Lady Joker. $n Volume 1 246 3 $a Lady Joker. $n One 246 3 $a Lady Joker. $n 1 264 1 $a New York : $b Soho Crime, $c 2021. 300 $a 576 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "This tour-de-force is widely regarded as the quintessential post-WWII Japanese novel. A plan to kidnap a major corporation's CEO becomes an allegory for the alienation of the individual self, a mirror to modern-day Japanese identity. In 1995 in Tokyo, five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on the horses. They have little in common except a disaffection with their lives. One is a poorly socialized but genius factory welder. One is a demoted detective with a chip on his shoulder. One is an ethnically Korean banker who is tired of being ostracized for his race. One is a truck driver who struggles to make ends meet; he is also the harried single parent of a teenage girl with down's syndrome. The fifth man, Monoi, a sixty-five-year-old drug store owner, is the one who brings them all together. Monoi has a hard past and a tragic present. He grew up in poverty during the war, and gave the best years of his life working for companies that didn't take care of him. Last summer, his only grandson was killed in a highly suspicious one-person car accident; shortly after, Monoi's son-in-law, the boy's father, a successful dentist, committed suicide after a correspondence with Hinode Beer Company, a huge conglomerate where his son had been interviewing. Snooping around, Monoi discovers a very strange chain of communication between his dead son-in-law and a blackmailer over a forgotten family secret. Monoi, alone in the world and intent on revenge, decides to put together a heist that will victimize the corporate behemoth that stole his family: he will kidnap Hinode's CEO and extract blood money from the corrupt financiers who back it. He enlists his four disaffected friends to help pull it off"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Beer industry $z Japan $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Criminal investigation $z Japan $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Japan $x Social conditions $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Alienation (Social psychology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Identity (Psychology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Detective and mystery stories, Japanese. 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Iida, Marie, $e translator. 700 1 $a Powell, Allison Markin, $e translator. 700 1 $i Translation of (expression): $a Takamura, Kaoru, $d 1953- $t Redi joka. $l English. 941 $a 11 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014128.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010021818.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629014915.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20230103011814.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20221208011108.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20221208010336.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20210817010301.0 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20210806010659.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20210727010358.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20210713014100.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210424010126.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=56DFAF66A4C211EB9FC78A1843ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search