The Kingdom, Fuminori Nakamura
The Kingdom, Fuminori Nakamura
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The Kingdom

Author: Fuminori Nakamura

Narrator: Lucie Kondo

Unabridged: 3 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/12/2016

Synopsis

Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute, carefully targeting potential Johns, selecting powerful and high-profile men. When she is alone with them, she drugs them and takes incriminating photos to sell for blackmail purposes. She knows very little about the organization she's working for, and is perfectly satisfied with the arrangement, as long as it means she doesn't have to reveal anything about her identity, either. She operates alone and lives a private, solitary life, doing her best to lock away painful memories. But when a figure from Yurika's past emerges, she realizes there is someone out there who knows all her secrets: her losses, her motivations, her every move. There are whispers of a crime lord named Kizaki-"a monster," she is told-and Yurika finds herself trapped in a game of cat and mouse. Is she wily enough to escape one of the most sadistic men in Tokyo?

About Fuminori Nakamura

Fuminori Nakamura has won numerous prizes for his writing, including Japan’s prestigious ÅŒe 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, My Annihilation, and Last Winter, We Parted. He was born in 1977 and graduated from Fukushima University in 2000.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Supreeth on June 24, 2018

Nakamura's books works just fine with me, I always save them for the sundays, they're short enough to finish in a day. Nakamura's a well known noir writer in Japan (not that I reside there or something). I've read four of his books so far and I can see how they can be best-selling books there, but wh......more

Goodreads review by Helly on September 27, 2019

A good book but not at par with The Thief, or my favourite from Nakamura - THE GUN. I suggest you skip this.......more

Goodreads review by Mizuki on August 28, 2018

3.5 stars. The Kingdom, a 'sister novel' to Fuminori Nakamura's masterful crime novel The Thief, tells a story of shady underworld of gangsters, criminal activities, double crossing through the viewpoint of a lone freelancer prostitute, who helps her boss to blackmail wealthy and powerful men after......more

Goodreads review by Nicki on November 25, 2017

I’m quite surprised by the low ratings and all the comments about the weirdness of this book. Maybe I’ve been reading too much Japanese fiction, because it didn’t seem odd to me at all. Yes, the storyline is original and unusual and Yurika is a hard character to understand, but it all makes sense an......more

Goodreads review by Tiash on March 23, 2022

It was just MEH. Nothing of it spoke to me. Cliche character, poor plot, poor translation. It just was not for me .......more

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