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A Quiet Place

A Quiet Place Paperback / softback - 2016

by Seicho Matsumoto

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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Why did Tsuneo's shy wife end up stone dead in a boutique in a louche Tokyo neighborhood? He discovers she's been having an affair, and, in a moment of panic, kills her lover. No apparent motive, no witnesses, a faltering investigation.
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  • Title A Quiet Place
  • Author Seicho Matsumoto
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition Tra
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bitter Lemon Press
  • Date 2016-08-16
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9781908524638_inp
  • ISBN 9781908524638 / 1908524634
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.8 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
  • Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, Japan
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Publishers Weekly, 06/20/2016, Page 0

About the author

Seicho Matsumoto: Seicho Matsumoto (1909-1992) did not see his first book published until he was in his forties. He was a prolific author, producing in four decades more than 450 works. He is considered Japan's most accomplished writer of mystery and detective fiction.

Matsumoto's first full-length detective fiction, Ten to sen ('Points and Lines'), after running as a newspaper serial from 1957 to 1958, was a big hit as a book in 1958, selling over a million and a quarter copies. In 1961, Suna do utsuwa ('Vessel of Sand', 1961, published in English as Inspector Imanishi Investigates, 1989) sold four and a half million copies and became a movie box-office hit. 'A Quiet Place' was originally published in Japan in 1971 as Kikanakatta basho. This is the first time it has been translated into English. It was written about half way through Matsumoto's writing life.

Louise Heal Kawai: Louise Heal Kawai comes from Manchester. She has spent the past twenty years in Nagoya, Japan, as a translator and teacher. Her published translations include Daido Tamaki's Milk, Tendo Shoko's best-selling autobiography Yakuza Moon; and most recently Building Waves, a novel by Tomioka Taeko.