{"product_id":"the-rope-artist-fuminori-nakamura","title":"The Rope Artist (Fuminori Nakamura)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe aftermath of the murder of a bondage teacher reveals the darkest  corners of the human mind in this chilling new mystery from the master  of Japanese literary noir.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo detectives. Two identical women. One dead body  then two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan s underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears a complex cultural history of spirituality, torture, cleansing, and sacrifice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Togashi, a junior member of the police force, investigates the murder of a kinbaku instructor, he finds himself unable to resist his own private transgressive desires. In contrast, Togashi s Sherlock Holmesian colleague Hayama is morally upright to a fault, with a stalwart commitment to the truth and nearly superhuman powers of deduction. When Hayama notices a dangerous measure of darkness within Togashi, he embarks on a parallel investigation, which soon spirals out of control. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnflinching in its flayed-raw treatment of identity, violence, sexuality, power, the occult, and the divine, The Rope Artist is both viscerally painful and unexpectedly hopeful a genre homage that shines a light on the most dangerous elements of the human psyche.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFuminori Nakamura\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1977 and graduated from Fukushima University in 2000. He won the 2002 Shinch  Literary Prize for New Writers for his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Gun\u003c\/i\u003e; the Noma New Literary Prize for \u003ci\u003eShade\u003c\/i\u003e in 2004; and the 2005 Akutagawa Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Boy in the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Thief\u003c\/i\u003e, his first novel to be translated into English, won the 2010 Kenzaburo  e Prize, was a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Prize, and was a Wall Street Journal Best Fiction of 2012 selection. He also won NoirCon s David L. Goodis Award in 2014, the Bunkamura Dumago prize for \u003ci\u003eMy Annihilation\u003c\/i\u003e in 2016, the Chunichi Cultural Award in 2020, and the Noma Literary Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Line\u003c\/i\u003e in 2024. His novels have been turned into 7 movies and translated into 15 languages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSam Bett \u003c\/b\u003eis a fiction writer and Japanese translator. His translation work has won the Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize and been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 288 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65842466685277,"sku":"K097363041","price":15.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9736304100001A.jpg?v=1788780508","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-rope-artist-fuminori-nakamura","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}