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Ashes

by Kenzo Kitakata · 1990

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The vice and virtues of middle age are espied with an eagle eye in this hardboiled story about a mid-career gangster. Unfolding thorugh chiseled sketches and run through with tantalizing motifs, Kitakata's masterpiece follows the fortunes of a yakuza mobster as his moment of truth approaches. Cool, real, and cleansing, Ashesis a literary tonic.

Genre
crimecrimeMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thisnoirnoirMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisJapanJapanMore like thisLess of thisAsiaAsiaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 219 pages

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