Tokyo mystery falls short
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{ "b" : "In Search Of A Distant Voice," , "cite" : "by Taichi Yamada, Faber & Faber, €14.60."}
Taichi Yamada’s Tokyo is a lonely place, where marriages are arranged by paternalistic employers, and civil servants who work late can drink pre-packaged cups of sake before crashing out for the night in office rest-stations.
It’s a sterile world, suffocatingly conformist, and an appropriate backdrop for this story about the ramifications of guilt and ...