FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SIX FOUR: A TENSE INVESTIGATION IN THE AFTERMATH OF AN AIR DISASTER – FOR FANS OF SPOTLIGHT AND AFTER THE CRASH.
‘He’s a master’ New York Times Book Review
‘Very different . . . to almost anything out there’ Observer
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.
2002. 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.
‘Seventeen is a brilliant novel on any level – it’s a gripping page turner, while remaining moving and complex. It’s a deeply satisfying read and it will be a while before I read anything as good’ William Ryan
‘An astringent, unforgiving picture of modern Japanese society’ Guardian
‘He’s a master’ New York Times Book Review
‘Very different . . . to almost anything out there’ Observer
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.
2002. 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.
‘Seventeen is a brilliant novel on any level – it’s a gripping page turner, while remaining moving and complex. It’s a deeply satisfying read and it will be a while before I read anything as good’ William Ryan
‘An astringent, unforgiving picture of modern Japanese society’ Guardian
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Reviews
Seventeen is a brilliant novel on any level - but as a thriller it's a gripping page turner, while remaining moving and complex. It's a deeply satisfying read and it will be a while before I read anything as good.
Yokoyama's successor to the mesmeric Six Four is every bit as ambitious and compelling. Reinventing the genre of the investigative thriller to create something rich and strange.
Yokoyama possesses that elusive trait of a first-rate novelist: the ability to grab readers' interest and never let go.
Addictive.
A binge read.
An education about Japan.
A gripping newsroom drama . . . it's a testament to Yokoyama's narrative skills that this story of office politics remains taut and tense through every page . . . a fantastic page turner.