Seventeen, Hideo Yokoyama
Seventeen, Hideo Yokoyama
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Seventeen
A Novel

Author: Hideo Yokoyama, Louise Heal Kawai

Narrator: Tom Lawrence

Unabridged: 12 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/13/2018


Synopsis

A tense, powerful thriller from the bestselling author of Six Four

1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet of 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 is united by an unimaginable horror and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop.

2003. Seventeen years later, Yuuki remembers the adrenaline-fueled, 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 solved mystery and represents Yuuki’s final, unconquered fear.

From Hideo Yokoyama, the celebrated author of Six Four, comes Seventeen—an investigative thriller set amid the aftermath of disaster.

About Hideo Yokoyama

Born in 1957, Hideo Yokoyama worked for twelve years as an investigative reporter with a regional newspaper north of Tokyo, before becoming one of Japan’s most acclaimed fiction writers. His exhaustive and relentless work ethic is known to mirror the intense and obsessive behavior of his characters, and in January 2003 he was hospitalized following a heart attack brought about by working nonstop for seventy-two hours. Six Four is his sixth novel, and his first to be published in the English language, followed by Seventeen.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Meike on September 25, 2018

Don't believe the blurb! This is not an "investigative thriller" about how and why the biggest plane crash in Japanese history occurred, it's a newsroom drama about a bunch of journalists trying to cover the event, which puts them in numerous moral predicaments: 520 passengers have died, and what is......more

Goodreads review by Widyanto on September 14, 2023

If by any chance, you picked up this book hoping that you will get to read an action-packed, adrenaline-fueled, strenuously thrilling novel, then it is indubitably probable, that your enjoyment during the entire course of examination of the manuscript may deteriorate enormously. This novel neatly el......more

Goodreads review by 8stitches 9lives on May 31, 2018

I have always had a fascination with Japan, as well as Japanese authors, with my favourite writer, Haruki Murakami, hailing from that part of the world, so it was an easy decision to read SEVENTEEN. I love to learn about different cultures and this title educated me in a way that fit within the stor......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on September 03, 2022

Yokoyama's whole thing is to dive fully into procedure and process, to find meaning and purpose there. In some of his other work it's been more mystery but here there is no mystery to solve, we follow Yuuki, a reporter in a local paper who is given the role of Lead when a massive plane crash in thei......more

Goodreads review by Sam on April 28, 2019

This book was on the BTBA longlist. I had skipped over Six Four, last year since I was not tempted by the thought of a police procedural. I will reconsider that having now read Seventeen. The novel focuses on a local newspaper man who is elevated to assignment editor for the story of a jumbo jet air......more