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The Gun

โœ Scribed by Nakamura, Fuminori


Book ID
100642844
Publisher
Soho Press Inc
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Weight
228 KB
Category
Fiction
City
Japan.
ISBN
1616955910

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โœฆ Synopsis


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. Print run 30,000.

โœฆ Subjects


Japan


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