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supernatural flavoured mystery with a lot of philosophical discussion
(Review date: Dec 2010)
This is a strong contender for the best book in Japanese I've read this year; it's certainly the longest.
It's a mystery novel with a supernatural flavour, set in Tokyo in the early 1950s.
The narrator, Sekiguchi, is a writer of magazine articles. At the start of the story, he visits a friend, named Chuuzenji Akihiko but who mostly goes by the nickname Kyougokudou from the name of the second hand bookshop he owns. Sekiguchi wants to discuss a rumour he's heard about