A quiet place / Seicho Matsumoto ; translated by Louise Heal Kawai.
Language: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: London : Bitter Lemon Press, 2016.Description: 235 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781908524638 (paperback)
- Kikanakatta Basho. English
- Wife -- Death -- Fiction
- Truthfulness and falsehood -- Fiction
- Widowers -- Fiction
- Widowers -- Japan -- Fiction
- Married people -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Wives -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Detective and mystery stories
- Murder -- Investigation
- Wives
- Wives -- Death -- Fiction
- Japan -- Fiction
- 895.635 22
- PL856.A8 K513 2016
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | MAT | Issued | 08/05/2024 | 065576 |
First published in Japanese as Kikanakatta Basho by Kadokawa Corporation, Tokyo, 1975.
While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn't totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly-spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed. How did it come about that his wife--who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings--ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighborhood? When Tsuneo goes to apologize to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wife's death he discovers the villa Tachibana near by, a house known to be a meeting place for secret lovers. As he digs deeper into his wife's recent past, he must eventually conclude that she led a double life....
Translated from the Japanese.
