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Level 35

白夜行

Novel
by 東野 圭吾
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[DeepL Translation - needs review] In 1973, a pawnbroker was murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka. Suspects come to mind one after another, but the case remains a cold case. Ryoji Kirihara, the son of the victim, and Yukio Nishimoto, the daughter of the "suspect" - a dark-eyed boy and an exceptionally beautiful girl - later go their completely different ways. A number of horrific crimes appear and disappear around them. But there is no proof. And 19 years ....... An elaborate story wit...
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864
ISBN:
4087474399
ISBN13:
9784087474398

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bulletsquidsays
December 23, 2024

Really good book, best one I've read so far in the mystery genre. Very well worth the read, hard parts due to vocabulary and some colloquial/kansai ben, but otherwise pretty simple grammar.

Note: I recommend keeping a list of characters with the general gist of who they are, as the story progresses. Because, there's toooooo many characters and time skips, so it's hard to track, especially if you suck at kanji names like I do.

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leirbagsays
February 4, 2025

Easily the best japanese book I've ever read, would recommend to anyone who likes mystery. It's a large scale book set over a long period of time and containing a vast amount of characters, but the flow of the writing style creates effortless transitions between chapters and draws you in until you don't even realise how long it is. By the end I'd grown so invested in the world and mystery I didn't even notice it had finished until I turned the page and realised there wasn't any more. My tips w

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