Niji no tori:
虹の鳥

Medoruma's novel Niji no tori (Rainbow Bird) was one of the best books published in Japan in 2006. It offers the reader a rare, painful experience. The story is set in Naha, the capital of Okinawa. Hika, a yakuza, makes a living from blackmailing men with compromising pictures he takes of them...

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Main Author: Medoruma, Shun 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:Japanese
Published: Tōkyō Kage Shobō 2017
Edition:Shinsōban
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Summary:Medoruma's novel Niji no tori (Rainbow Bird) was one of the best books published in Japan in 2006. It offers the reader a rare, painful experience. The story is set in Naha, the capital of Okinawa. Hika, a yakuza, makes a living from blackmailing men with compromising pictures he takes of them with prostitutes. His subordinate Katsuya is entrusted with managing the young women. One day, Hika brings home Mayu, a girl weak from drug use. Katsuya panics when Hika reprimands him for his uselessness in training her to be a good prostitute. Things start moving quickly when Mayu exacts revenge, through a grisly lynching, on a middle school teacher who has picked her up for sex. The novel obsessively depicts the violent bullying Mayu had been subjected to as a girl, Katsuya's experiences as a delinquent, and the brutality of the yakuza. The most extreme violence portrayed in the book is the rape of an Okinawan girl by three U.S. servicemen. The rape and ensuing demonstrations, employed as a backdrop to the story, were modeled on an incident that actually took place in 1995.--Books from Japan
Physical Description:220 Seiten 19 cm
ISBN:9784877144715
4877144714

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