Author: Shuichi Yoshida
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 18 August 2011
Villain is a moving and disturbing novel about loneliness, lies and the gap between expectation and reality. Highly recommended. --The Guardian
`...the interest...will lie in the...details...about contemporary Japanese society...what comes across...is the rootlessness and alienation of the you in Japan...' --Daily Mail
'...impressive...A gripping psychological thriller which shows a very different Japan from the neon-lit Tokyo we are more used to.'
--Financial Times
A bestseller in Japan... his Japanese noir may well turn out to be a winner with western readers. --The Sunday Times
Yoshida...[a] novelist of truly international stature --The Times
'A superlative crime novel with intriguing twists, but it's also a commentary of the rootless existence of twentysomethings in modern Japan' --Sunday Times
'Villain is a moving and disturbing novel about loneliness, lies and the gap between expectation and reality. Highly recommended' --The Guardian
'...a superlative crime novel with intriguing twists, but...also a commentary of the rootless existence of twentysomethings in...Japan.' --Sunday Times
