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| #1623444 in Books | Vertical | 2003-06-01 | 2003-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.72 x.88 x5.82l,.91 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A beautiful, intropective work -- if covered in yakuza grit.|By Ladybird|A great piece of introspective hardboiled Japanese fiction. Instead of a detective as so many writers of hardboiled fiction are apt to fall back on (likely and rightly in attempts to follow the success of Raymond Chandler et al), it tells a story centered in yakuza politics - played close enough to the che||"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."
The vice and virtues of middle age are espied with an eagle eye in this hardboiled story about a mid-career gangster. Unfolding thorugh 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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