For the avid reader, discerning collector, real Japanese crime and fantasy fiction and Hideo Yokoyama - fan (to be),
a like-new, double-signed, stamped, limited 1st UK edition / 1st printing hardcover copy of
Hideo Yokoyama
Prefecture D
riverrun / Quercus / Goldsboro, London / UK, 2019
Your copy is unread and like new. It is the very low number22, 24 or 25 of a limited edition of 250 copies worldwide, double-signed and stamped by Hideo Yokoyama and translator, Jonathan Lloyd-Davies, directly to the limitation page. It comes with the original, vertical bellyband in perfect shape (see photos).
"A collection of four novellas: each taking place in 1998, each set in the world of Six Four, and each centring around a mystery and the unfortunate officer tasked with solving it.
SEASON OF SHADOWS: “The force could lose face . . . I want you to fix this.” Personnel’s
Futawatari receives a horrifying memo forcing him to investigate the
behaviour of a legendary detective with unfinished business.
CRY OF THE EARTH: “It’s too easy to kill a man with a rumour.” Shinto of Internal
Affairs receives an anonymous tipoff alleging a Station Chief is
visiting the red-light district - a warning he soon learns is a red
herring.
BLACK LINES: “It was supposed to be her special day.” Section Chief Nanao,
responsible for the force’s 49 female officers, is alarmed to learn her
star pupil has not reported for duty, and is believed to be missing.
BRIEFCASE: “We need to know what he’s going to ask.” On the eve of a routine
debate, Political Liaison Tsuge learns a wronged politician is
preparing his revenge. He must now quickly dig up dirt to silence him.
Prefecture D continues Hideo Yokoyama’s exploration of the themes
of obsession, saving face, office politics and inter-departmental
conflicts. Placing everyday characters between a rock and a hard place
and then dialling up the pressure, he blends and balances the very
Japanese with the very accessible, to spectacular effect." (quercusbooks.co.uk)
"Born in 1957, Hideo Yokoyama worked for twelve years as an investigative
reporter with a regional newspaper north of Tokyo, before becoming one
of Japan’s most acclaimed fiction writers. His exhaustive and relentless
work ethic is known to mirror the intense and obsessive behaviour of
his characters; and in January 2003 he was hospitalized following a
heart attack brought about by working constantly for seventy-two hours. Six Four was his sixth novel, and his first to be published in the English language." (quercusbooks.co.uk)