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02622aam a22004218i 4500 001 F2BA0CB801D311EEACDD33752EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230603010031 008 220513s2023 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022022925 020 $a 164129325X 020 $a 9781641293259 040 $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h jpn 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PL873.5.A339 $b S6613 2023 082 00 $a 895.63/6 $2 23/eng/20220513 100 1 $a Nakamura, Fuminori, $d 1977- $e author. 240 10 $a Sono saki no michi ni kieru. $l English. 245 14 $a The rope artist / $c Fuminori Nakamura ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett. 263 $a 2305. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Soho Crime, $c [2023] 300 $a pages cm. 520 $a "Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body-rapidly becoming two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan's underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears a complex cultural history of spirituality, torture, cleansing, and sacrifice. As Togashi, a junior member of the police force, investigates the murder of a kinbaku instructor, he finds himself unable to resist his own private transgressive desires. In contrast, Togashi's colleague Hayama is morally upright to a fault, with a stalwart commitment to the truth. A Sherlock Holmesian detective with nearly superhuman powers of deduction, Hayama notices a dangerous measure of darkness within Togashi and embarks on his own parallel investigation, which soon spirals out of control. Unflinching in its flayed-raw treatment of identity, violence, sexuality, power, the occult, and the divine, Fuminori Nakamura's explosive, complex new mystery is both viscerally painful and unexpectedly hopeful-plus, intriguingly pulpy. As is the case with all Nakamura's work, The Rope Artist has a twisted, tangled plot, and functions as a profoundly philosophical treatise on the most tantalizing, most dangerous elements of the human psyche"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Serial murderers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sexual fantasies $z Japan $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Identity (Psychology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Japanese author $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft. 700 1 $a Bett, Sam, $d 1986- $e translator. 941 $a 5 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230802011111.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011657.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629015414.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230621010714.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230603010108.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F2BA0CB801D311EEACDD33752EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search