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Villain (2010)

by Shūichi Yoshida(Favorite Author)

3.56 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

030737887X (ISBN13: 9780307378873)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Pantheon

review 1: This was a little depressing, but only because it was so well written. I felt a certain empathy for the central character and felt that Shūichi Yoshida made him a believable person. The book was an interesting exploration of alienation and the need to feel loved by someone, to feel that you belong. It wasn't just a clichéd tale of an introverted loner turning out to be a serial killer. It was more an exploration of how life events mould us and can take us to extremes. It did leave me feeling a little bummed out, though!
review 2: If this is the state of modern Japan then it is a depressing place. Through the device of the the murder of an amateur prostitute by a man abandoned as a child by his mother, Yoshida shows us a Japan not of cherry blossom and bowing... more. The characters reveal to us venality, indifference, obsession with the cost of things, extortion, sadness, loneliness and extreme detachment from society. Stieg Larsson this is not, the novel, despite the subject matter and the depressing condition of many of the characters is elegiac, almost dreamy in its style. less

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