Ashes

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.

Kenzo Kitakata is the undisputed don of hardboiled and mystery writing in Japan. Immensly popular wiht mature readers both male and female, his works have won numerous literary awards.

The Man Within
Wind	p. 2
Pigeons	p. 15
Eight Years	p. 29
Hourglass	p. 42
Profile	p. 54
Tablecloth	p. 66
Ashes	p. 78
Within the Man
Prison of Water	p. 92
Bathing	p. 131
Like a Dog	p. 175
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