A Lost Paradise (ๅคฑๆฅฝๅ Shitsurakuen) is the 1997 novel by Japanese author Junichiro Watanabe. It tells the story of a 54-year-old married former magazine editor, his affair with a 37-year-old married typesetter and their double-suicide. The couple, Kลซki and Rinko, are modeled after the famous case of
A paradise lost
- Book ID
- 111295921
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Weight
- 127 KB
- Volume
- 68
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0028-4289
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