Description
| Product ID: | 9781641295697 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Rope Artist |
| Authors: | Author: Fuminori Nakamura, Sam Bett |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body-then 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 Sherlock Holmesian colleague Hayama is morally upright to a fault, with a stalwart commitment to the truth and nearly superhuman powers of deduction. When Hayama notices a dangerous measure of darkness within Togashi, he embarks on a parallel investigation, which soon spirals out of control. Unflinching in its flayed-raw treatment of identity, violence, sexuality, power, the occult, and the divine, The Rope Artist is both viscerally painful and unexpectedly hopeful-a genre homage that shines a light on the most dangerous elements of the human psyche. |
| Imprint Name: | Soho Press |
| Publisher Name: | Soho Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-04-02 |
