Shadow Family - Softcover

Miyabe, Miyuki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 4770030045 ISBN 13: 9784770030047

Verlag: Kodansha International Ltd, 2005

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Book by Miyabe Miyuki

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"In Miyuki Miyabe's Shadow Family, a translation from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter... the theatrically constructed plot is soon swirling with the naked emotions of unattached, deeply unhappy people eager to express their yearnings for an idealized family life no longer possible in the fractured social structure of modern-day Japan... Miyabe is a sympathetic observer, but also a sly one; and we're not surprised when one of the cops points out that the loving cyber family was drawn together through mutual admiration for a movie, "American Beauty," about an ideal family that sustains itself on illusions that brings it to a crashing, violent end." - Marilyn Stasio for The New York Times Book Review"

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In this compelling murder mystery focusing on the murky world of online chat rooms, veteran Desk Sergeant Takegami finds himself investigating the double murder of a teenaged girl and a middle-aged man, who has created his own shadow family' on the Internet. This is a murder mystery focusing on the dark world of internet chat rooms populated by people attracted by the chance to be whoever they want to be. Police investigating the murder of a middleaged office worker discover emails on the victim's computer that indicate he had been a regular participant in an internet chat room. He'

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• Verlag: Kodansha International Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 4770030045
• ISBN 13: 9784770030047
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208