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Seventeen by Hideo Yokoyama
Jan. 21st, 2018 12:55 amThe Blurb On The Back:
Five hundred and twenty people died on that mountain.
That sparkling mountain.
1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet against the power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom. But when an air disaster of unprecedented scale occurs on the paper’s doorstep, its staff are united by an unimaginable horror, and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop.
2003. Seventeen years later, Yuuki remembers the adrenaline-fuelled, emotionally charged seven days that changed his and his colleagues’ lives. He does so while making good on a promise he made that fateful week – one that holds the key to its last unsolved mystery, and represents Yuuki’s final, unconquered fear.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Hideo Yokoyama’s novel (translated from Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai and originally published in Japan in 2003) is being mis-marketed as an investigative thriller but is more of a literary historical piece looking at journalism in the 80s and its office politics while tagging on a limp middle-aged man in crisis plot such that while it’s an okay read it never catches fire and doesn’t offer much that’s new.
SEVENTEEN will be released in the United Kingdom on 8th February 2018. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the ARC of this book.
That sparkling mountain.
1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet against the power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom. But when an air disaster of unprecedented scale occurs on the paper’s doorstep, its staff are united by an unimaginable horror, and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop.
2003. Seventeen years later, Yuuki remembers the adrenaline-fuelled, emotionally charged seven days that changed his and his colleagues’ lives. He does so while making good on a promise he made that fateful week – one that holds the key to its last unsolved mystery, and represents Yuuki’s final, unconquered fear.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Hideo Yokoyama’s novel (translated from Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai and originally published in Japan in 2003) is being mis-marketed as an investigative thriller but is more of a literary historical piece looking at journalism in the 80s and its office politics while tagging on a limp middle-aged man in crisis plot such that while it’s an okay read it never catches fire and doesn’t offer much that’s new.
SEVENTEEN will be released in the United Kingdom on 8th February 2018. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the ARC of this book.
