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Ashes

By Kenzo Kitakata
Translated by Emi Shimokawa

By Kenzo Kitakata
Translated by Emi Shimokawa

By Kenzo Kitakata
Translated by Emi Shimokawa

By Kenzo Kitakata
Translated by Emi Shimokawa

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Category: Noir Mysteries

Category: Noir Mysteries

Hardcover $23.95

Jun 01, 2003 | ISBN 9781932234022

Ebook $10.99

Feb 07, 2023 | ISBN 9781647292447

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    About Ashes

    The vice and virtues of middle age are espied with an eagle eye in this hardboiled story about a mid-career gangster. Unfolding through chiseled sketches and run through with tantalizing motifs, Kitakata’s masterpiece follows the fortunes of a yakuza mobster as his moment of truth approaches. Cool, real, and cleansing, Ashes is a literary tonic.

    About Ashes

    The vice and virtues of middle age are espied with an eagle eye in this hardboiled story about a mid-career gangster. Unfolding through chiseled sketches and run through with tantalizing motifs, Kitakata’s masterpiece follows the fortunes of a yakuza mobster as his moment of truth approaches. Cool, real, and cleansing, Ashes is a literary tonic.

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    The Cage
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    Product Details

    Category: Noir Mysteries

    Hardcover | $23.95
    Published by Vertical
    Jun 01, 2003 | 224 Pages | 5-3/4 x 8-3/4 | ISBN 9781932234022

    Category: Noir Mysteries

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by Vertical
    Feb 07, 2023 | 224 Pages | ISBN 9781647292447
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    Praise

    "Ashes is a fascinating look at the largely hidden world of the yakuza, Japan’s mafia." —Japan Visitor

    "This yakuza fable reads like a treatment for a Takeshi Kitano film, and its aging mobster Tanaka evokes Beat’s sullen screen ennui." – Mary Jacobi , The Village Voice

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