by Fuminori Nakamura, Satoko Izumo, Stephen Coates
move over Ryu Murakami, a new bleak voice from the streets has risen!"The Thief", as the GR description goes, "oozes with existential dread," and this hard-boiled masterpiece demonstrates once again why Japan's dark side and not its over-privileged rich are the soil for the higher forms of literary ...
Quick, easy read, but very good--I was hooked the whole time, right to the very last page. The narrator would talk about other people or experiences and only later would he reflect more on them, which drew me in simply as a curious reader but at the same time felt so natural since the book is almost...
An almost surreal, almost dreamlike crime fiction tale. A very smooth narrative that goes down easy. This would have been four stars if some of the main character's background would have been fleshed out a bit more. A particular relationship that he develops could have been handled in a more interes...
I won this book from Goodreads First Reds giveaway. It is a pretty short novel, and I thought there could have been more to it, like more of the thief's back story besides the one incident of him shoplifting as a kid, and his girlfriend who he flashed back to a couple times. The tower is a pretty po...
I have read numerous Japanese mysteries by several authors and find that the storyline is incredibly strong, yet the character development is pretty weak. The Thief is no exception. If I were to judge it only on the storyline, this would have been a 4 star read. It is very strong and incredibly fast...
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