The North Light [Hardcover]

TranslatedfromtheJapanesebyLouiseHealKawai
 
Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and his career seems to have hit a barrier, while his marriage has failed. He is shocked to learn that the Yoshino House is empty apart from a single chair, stood facing the north light of nearby Mount Asama.
 
How can he live with the rejection of the work he had put his heart and soul into, the dream house he would have loved to own himself? Aose determines that he must discover the truth behind this cruel and inexplicable dismissal of the Yoshino house and in doing so will find out a truth that goes back to the core of who he is.
 
Plottedwiththe subtlety of his bestselling masterpieceSix Four,The North Lightis Yokoyama at his elusive, tantalising and surprising best.
 HideoYokoyama(Author)
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.The North Lightis his fourth novel to be translated into the English language. His first,SixFour, was aSunday Timesbestseller in hardback and paperback, became the first Japanese novel to be shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger, was named in the Crime and Thrillers of 2016 roundups in each of theGuardian,Telegraph, Financial TimesandGlasgow Herald, and has since been translated into thirteen languages worldwide.

LouiseHealKawai(Translator)
Louise Heal Kawai is from Manchester in the UK, and holds an MA in Advanced Japanese Studies from thlsl