All She Was Worth - Miyuki Miyabe, Alfred Birnbaum • BookLikes (ISBN:0395966582)

All She Was Worth

by: Alfred Birnbaum (author) Miyuki Miyabe (author)

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Here is a deftly written thriller that is also a "deep and moody" (NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) journey through the dark side of Japan's consumer-crazed society. Ordinary people plunge into insurmountable personal debt and fall prey to dangerous webs of underground creditors-so dangerous, in fact, that murder may be the only way out. A beautiful young woman vanishes, and the detective quickly finds she is not whom she claims to be. Is she a victim, a killer, or both? In a country that tracks its citizens at every turn, how can two women claim the same identity and then disappear without a trace?

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Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780395966587 (0395966582)

ASIN: 395966582

Publish date: May 12th 1999

Publisher: Mariner Books

Pages no: 304

Edition language: Japanese

Category:

Literature, Cultural, Mystery, Asian Literature, Asia, Crime, Japan, Japanese Literature

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otakumom rated it

12 years ago

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This detective novel was engrossing. Our protagonist, Honma is a police officer on medical leave. He really has no authority whatsoever at this time and tries to concentrate on getting better but is restless. In comes his deceased wife's cousin's son whose fiancee has suddenly disappeared and need...

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nouveau rated it

12 years ago

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this is a good book! I find Keigo Higashino unreadable, so Miyabe Miyuki's work does deserve the 1992 and 1993 medals it won. there's so much J-detective fiction being translated, that one must pick and choose, and Miyabe did successfully advance her genre, adding a tightly-written, deft work with b...

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AC rated it

14 years ago

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Just great.... Smart, thoughtful, intricate, noir, hip...

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sandin954 rated it

18 years ago

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The first of Miyabe's work to be translated to English (she is a huge bestseller in Japan) revolves around a missing person case that morphs in stolen identity with elements of the Japanese system of credit and bankrupcty thrown in

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