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    The Gun
    The Gun
    The Gun
    Audiobook4 hours

    The Gun

    Written by Fuminori Nakamura

    Narrated by Brian Nishii

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The award-winning debut novel by Japanese noir master Fuminori Nakamura, translated into English for the first time. From the moment university student Nishikawa spots the gun next to the dead man he's stumbled across on a nighttime walk, the world around him blurs. The gun--loaded with four bullets--brings an intoxicating sense of excitement to his life. But soon merely possessing the gun is not enough. He must shoot it. Fuminori Nakamura's presence in the US has been steadily increasing since Soho's first publication of The Thief. A young, exciting Japanese author who has won Japan's prestigious Oe Prize (The Thief), Akutagawa Prize (The Boy in the Earth) and Shincho Literary Prize (A Gun). Nakamura's books always get great review coverage. Praise for Fuminori Nakamura "This slim, icy, outstanding thriller, reminiscent of Muriel Spark and Patricia Highsmith, should establish Fuminori Nakamura as one of the most interesting Japanese crime novelists at work today." --USA Today "The Thief brings to mind Highsmith, Mishima and Doestoevsky . . . A chilling existential thriller leaving readers in doubt without making them feel in any way cheated." --The Wall Street Journal, Best Book of the Year Selection "Crime fiction that pushes past the bounds of genre, occupying its own nightmare realm . . . For Nakamura, like [Seicho] Matsumoto, guilt or innocence is not the issue; we are corrupted, complicit, just by living in society. The ties that bind, in other words, are rules beyond our making." --Los Angeles Times Fuminori Nakamura was born in 1977 and graduated from Fukushima University in 2000. He has won numerous prizes for his writing, including the Oe Prize, Japan's largest literary award, and the prestigious Akutagawa Prize. The Thief, his first novel to be translated into English, was a finalist for the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize. He is the recipient of the David L. Goodis Award for Noir Fiction. He lives in Tokyo with his wife.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    TranslatorAllison Markin Powell
    Release dateJan 5, 2016
    ISBN9781501904622
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    • 4/5
      It almost reads like an after-the-fact confession, the killer telling you everything that lead up to the killing, from finding the gun to executing his victim- an act he doesn't really plan so much as allows to happen. Read this way it's more interesting than simply the psychological portrait of a man obsessed, although it is that as well. Definitely not your usual crime novel though- just know that much before you start. For me it was a quick and ultimately satisfying read.
    • 5/5
      Though it is a short book it took me several weeks gradually to read it. An intensely visceral, psychological work it takes you inside places one doesn't usually go. Places that relate to all levels of obsession with mechanized violence. Places one doesn't want to go because though inexorable and detached from reality as they are, they are places we can find within or not far from all of us. The writer wields incredible technique with minimal resources. Whether he takes us to these places through control of sensation or we already occupy them makes little difference. The atmosphere is not one filled with tons of charachters or descriptive detail, but there is more than enough to achieve the effect the author wants us to experience. At first it all has the feel of morbid preoccupation and so one tends to want to write the main character/narrator off as being a marginal entity and the authors intentions likewise, but as we follow the progression we see more, whether we want to admit it, or not, people we know,and precoccupations which the larger populations, almost unanimously, claim indifference to. This novel is the description of a terrain which is not penetrated by crime entertainment or news. What we are usually given are tales that mirror the myths, legends and stories of old. We do not plumb the absence of feeling that pervades and the agony that results, the emotional mechanics that happen with component parts we all possess. We prefer absolute evil to be alien to our lives.