The Gun

The Gun

by Fuminori Nakamura
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 05/01/2016

Share This eBook:

  $16.99

A Tokyo college student’s discovery and eventual obsession with a stolen handgun awakens something dark inside him.


On a nighttime walk along a Tokyo riverbank, a young man named Nishikawa stumbles on a dead body, beside which lies a gun. From the moment Nishikawa decides to take the gun, the world around him blurs. Knowing he possesses the weapon brings an intoxicating sense of purpose to his dull university life. But soon Nishikawa’s personal entanglements become unexpectedly complicated: he finds himself romantically involved with two women while his biological father, whom he’s never met, lies dying in a hospital. Through it all, he can’t stop thinking about the gun—and the four bullets loaded in its chamber. As he spirals into obsession, his focus is consumed by one idea: that possessing the gun is no longer enough—he must fire it.

ISBN:
9781616955915
9781616955915
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
05-01-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Soho Press
Fuminori Nakamura

Fuminori Nakamura was born in 1977 and graduated from Fukushima University in 2000. He has won numerous prizes for his writing, including Japan's prestigious Oe Prize; the David L. Goodis Award for Noir Fiction; and the Akutagawa Prize. The Thief, his first novel to be translated into English, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His other novels include Cult X, The Gun, The Kingdom, Evil and the Mask, The Boy in the Earth, and Last Winter, We Parted.

This item is delivered digitally

Reviews

Be the first to review The Gun.