Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body?rapidly becoming two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan?s underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears a complex cultural history of spirituality, torture, cleansing, and sacrifice. As Togashi, a junior member of the police force, investigates the murder of a kinbaku instructor, he finds himself unable to resist his own private transgressive desires. In contrast, Togashi?s colleague Hayama is morally upright to a fault, with a stalwart commitment to the truth. A Sherlock Holmesian detective with nearly superhuman powers of deduction, Hayama notices a dangerous measure of darkness within Togashi and embarks on his own parallel investigation, which soon spirals out of control. Unflinching in its flayed-raw treatment of identity, violence, sexuality, power, the occult, and the divine, Fuminori Nakamura?s explosive, complex new mystery is both viscerally painful and unexpectedly hopeful?plus,
Author : Fuminori Nakamura
Pages : 288 pages
Publisher : Penguin Random House
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 9781641293259
ISBN-13 : 9781641293259