On Parole Paperback / softback - 2000
by Akira Yoshimura
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- Title On Parole
- Author Akira Yoshimura
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition First Edition Th
- Condition New
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin
- Date 2000-11-03
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780156011471
- ISBN 9780156011471 / 0156011476
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.52 x 5.51 x 0.68 in (21.64 x 14.00 x 1.73 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
After spending sixteen years in prison for a crime of the heart, Shiro Kikutani is released into a world he no longer recognizes. He must readjust to the bright and vigorous stimulus of Tokyo while fending off his own dark memories. In a spare yet powerful style, Akira Yoshimura paints the psychology of a quiet man navigating his way through the unsuspected traumas of freedom-finding a job, finding a home, even something as simple as buying an alarm clock. Kikutani takes comfort in the numbing repetition of his new daily life, only to be drawn inexorably back to the scene of his crime. A subtly powerful story, On Parole explores the fragile life of a murderer and the conditions of freedom in an unforgiving society. Yoshimura's startling novel raises provocative questions of guilt and redemption.
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- New York Times, 01/21/2001, Page 28