Journey Under the Midnight Sun

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Book Genre: Asian Literature, Crime, Cultural, Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Mystery, Thriller GONE GIRL ในเรื่องนี้มีตัวละครที่สูสีกับ Amy ณ Gone Girl อยู่ และอ่านจนจบหน้าสุดท้าย ความรู้สึกที่เหลือไว้ให้ก็แบบเดียวกับเรื่อง Gone Girl เลย An officer in the Crime Investigation Unit of the Osaka Prefectural Police, Junzo was in charge of the investigation of the pawnshop incidence. Over the years of investigation, he grew suspicious of the mysterious events befallen on people close to Yukiho and Ryoji; he has been investigating them since. He likes Seven Stars cigarettes very much. Higashino is well known for his mystery novels. He made steady progress with several acclaimed novels throughout the 80s and 90s, until he became a household name with the publication of The Devotion of Suspect X in 2006, the third novel in his famous Detective Galileo series. Almost all of his works have been translated into Chinese, but only a handful of his more well-known works have English counterparts. The Devotion of Suspect X was the second highest selling book in all of Japan— fiction or nonfiction—the year it was published, with over 800,000 copies sold. It won the prestigious Naoki Prize for Best Novel— the Japanese equivalent of the National Book Award and the Man Booker Prize. Made into a motion picture in Japan, The Devotion of Suspect X spent 4 weeks at the top of the box office and was the third highest‐grossing film of the year.

Journey Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino | Goodreads

domino effect ทั้งเหยื่อที่ไม่ได้รับการเยียวยาจิตใจ ต่อให้ภายนอกสวยงามแค่ไหนแต่จิตใจกลับเน่าเฟะ ฆาตกรที่อาจจะไม่ได้ตั้งใจ แต่จากเหตุการณ์นั้นทำให้กลายเป็นคนจิตใจบิดเบี้ยว จากคนที่เคยโดนทำร้ายจึงไม่ยอมให้ใครทำร้ายอีกต่อไปและหันไปเล่นงานคนอื่นก่อนแทน เฮ้อออ A pawnbroker named Yosuke Kirihara was found murdered in an abandoned bulding. The body had been found by a kid named Kikuchi who, along-with other kids, used to play in the ducts inside the building. Suspecting that Kirihara had gone to that building on some adulterous fling, Police zoom on the only female customer of the pawnshop: Fumiyo Nishimoto, as well as a regular customer of the udon-shop where she works: Tadao Terasaki (jealousy-angle). They, also continue pursuing the widow Yaeko Kirihara, the pawnbroker’s assistant Isamu Matsuura, as well as the Kikuchi family (because the pawnbroker was carrying an unusually large amount of money that he had, most uncharacteristically, withdrawn from Bank). However, alibies were all cast-iron. Only person devoid of an alibi is Terasaki, who died shortly in an accident. And it seems that this would remain as another unsolved low-profile murder in the books of Osaka Police. However, Detective Sasagaki couldn’t let the case go, because he had noticed two pre-teen kids in this ruined & desolate landscape who were very special, and very captivating. For the next twenty years, even after he retired, he pursued those two persons: (1) the daughter of Fumiyo Nishimoto: Yukiho, (2) the son of the deceased: Ryo Kirihara. The book is a journey of those two, the unstoppable & insatiable white queen, and her ever-faithful dark knight. Higashino employs extraordinary skill in writing this story. In its bare outline, the plot might seem like a mundane genre piece. There are parts that dissolve into pure melodrama. There are shades of gothic noir. Some of the unexpected turns will leave the reader gasping. Even at its conclusion, there is an element of ambiguity. Like Sasagaki, the reader can easily become obsessed with the truth of this story. In Osaka, 1973, a body was found in an abandoned building. The police never caught the killer nor the motive for the murder. The story then moves on to Ryo, the son of the murdered man, and Yukiho, the daughter of the main suspect, were the ones who are most affected by the crime.A Midsummer’s Equation, with Detective Galileo from The Devotion of Suspect X, is due in early 2016. The author’s previous book, Malice, was one of our top books of 2014 and you’ll find more Japanese crime fiction here.

Keigo Higashino Quotes (Author of The Devotion of Suspect X)

The author sets the pace, and plays with pace, too. Tension mounts, you detect the approach of A Great Revelation at the end of a chapter... and the next chapter starts several years later without an answer to the preceding chapter. It's very clever, very absorbing. Tags: Adapted From A Novel, Investigation, Suspense, Sexual Abuse, Murder, Childhood Friends' Relationship, Evil Parental Figure, Matricide, Patricide, Death (Vote or add tags) The sun had set. Night had come to the city. How easy it would be if everything went dark, and the world ended right here, right now. What a relief it would be.” A complicated mystery about many people involved and related to a series of murder cases and crimes.If you make a habit out of it, it's nothing. The important thing is to make sure that you don't collect too much stuff. I keep throwing out all the extra stuff. If you do that, cleaning up isn't hard at all. As long as you have thirty minutes, you can get it done. One week is ten thousand eighty minutes, so if you just put in some effort for thirty minutes, you can spend about ten thousand minutes in comfort. But if you don't put in the thirty minutes of effort, you'll have to spend ten thousand minutes in discomfort.” Higashino leaves behind the increasingly weighty cases of Detective Galileo ( A Midsummer’s Equation, 2016, etc.) for an even more daunting stand-alone that traces the fallout of an unsolved murder through nearly two decades. Higashino bookends his story between two economic crises: the 1973 oil embargo and the late 1980's real estate bubble collapse. Even middle school children hustle for spare change. Fumihiko Kikuchi, a middle school student, complains about being unable to afford going to the movies. Conversations with his friend Yuichi Akiyoshi always seem to be tinged with envy. The book is filled with scenes of extreme wealth and poverty juxtaposed, of secretive family units terrified of neighborhood gossip, a corrupted cultural legacy, superficiality, struggles for survival in a predatory food chain and human loneliness. Obviously, I loved the book and would strongly recommend it to those who enjoy books written with simple elegance (albeit translated), and long, convoluted tales that occasionally leave the reader confused but always provoke thoughtfulness. There is little action so it is definitely not recommended for action junkies. This is a classic example of a perfect symbiosis, like that between shrimp and goby. A symbiosis that has only one target - getting Yukiho high in Japanese society, whatever it takes. Ryo is the perfect counterpart with no scruples at all. Murder, rapes, fraud computer criminality - everything an much more is used to get Yukiho what she wants. But bloodshed is always leaving a trail, and that can be followed by a very intelligent searcher. But at the very end those persons who never take a NO for an answer are found out. And the conclusion of that symbiosis can only a very violent one.

Journey under the midnight sun | KimLin Journey under the midnight sun | KimLin

That's what happens when you free people from the restraints of time. They make their own rigid schedule.” And what's worst, there's a clear hint in the first few chapters as to what's going on, so that the "mystery" is not a mystery at all 🙄 The owner of the "Kirihara" pawnshop and Ryoji's father, Yosuke was killed 19 years ago. He cared about his son very much. He discreetly had some unusual sexual interests... A suspenseful, professional-grade north country procedural whose heroine, a deft mix of compassion and attitude, would be welcome to return and tie up the gaping loose end Box leaves. The unrelenting cold makes this the perfect beach read. Though it’s not philosophical, the book is also a reflection on many of the more traditional elements in Japanese society. The traditional and heavily patriarchal design of the traditional Japanese family unit, for example. The highly protective attitude of Japanese businesses towards intellectual property (the book being set in the 80s, as software became an asset that Japanese law would subsequently protect). The bulk of the crimes being committed transgress these more traditional values – i.e. it’s the bad guys stealing software and the woman looking for a life beyond the role of housewife is the dangerous one – and in this way Journey Under The Midnight Sun skews in a generally conservative direction with the values that it espouses, though that’s by no means unusual for this particular genre, particularly when you consider that it’s borrowing so heavily from classical elements of the crime and noir tradition.Kusanagi had met plenty of good, admirable people who’d been turned into murderers by circumstance. There was something about them he always seemed to sense, an aura that they shared. Somehow, their transgression freed them from the confines of a mortal existence, allowing them to perceive the great truths of the universe. At the same time, it meant they had one foot in forbidden territory. They straddled the line between sanity and madness.” The story primarily concerns itself with the effects of this incident on two people: Ryoji Kirihara, the pawnbroker's son, and Yukiho Nishimoto, Fumiyo's daughter. The novel avoids directly revealing the two's thoughts to the reader, instead preferring to reveal information second-hand through the viewpoints of multiple other supporting characters whose lives intersect to form a complete picture of the story's events. Too many characters with confusing names. Many of the characters are non returning. They do their bit in their story then never reappear. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.

Journey Under the Midnight Sun - Kindle edition by Higashino

As the story progresses, a lot of characters get introduced. It might be a little overwhelming at first, but everything comes together eventually just like different pieces in the puzzle fit to show the whole picture and in the end, you’re left gasping for air at what you see! The shifting point of views among the different characters kept the tension alive. The story kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time, making me feel all sorts of feels and caused me to question everything I’ve ever known! Keigo Higashino ( 東野 圭吾) is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan—as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA. She was pretty, he had to admit, with very delicate features. But there was something else, too. There are thorns in her eyes—that was the only way he could express it. For a moment, he thought she might have felt left out because he spoke to her friend first and not to her, but as she smiled, he realised the thorns were always there. A true lady would never have eyes like that.” Unlike many other Japanese crime fiction greats such as Kirino Natsuoand Nakamura Fuminori, there’s nothing particularly literary about Higashino’s writing style. In fact, one of the reasons that I suspect TV and film producers regularly turn to Higashino is because his work is remarkably easy to translate directly into visual media. With efficiency and minimal embellishment, Higashino describes conversations, events, and results, without any particular desire for philosophical digressions or genre-bending. The author claims to be most heavily inspired by authors such as Matsumoto Seicho and Edogawa Ranpo, and that heritage is evident in his own work. Journey Under The Midnight Sun is a long read, but a highly accessible one that is particularly undemanding of the reader.The story opens in 1973 with the death of a pawnshop owner. The detective Sasagaki acquaints with the victim’s young son Ryo and crosses paths with a beautiful young girl Yukiho. Sasagaki suspects a connection between Ryo, Yukiho and the victim’s murder but without any concrete evidence, the murder becomes another cold case that is buried by time.