Devils in Daylight

Name: Devils in Daylight
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Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780811228756

by Unknown Author

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96 pages2019New DirectionsISBN 9780811228756

Witnesses Code and cipher stories Murder Fiction Fiction, mystery & detective, general Fiction, suspense

About this book

"One morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phone call from his old friend Sonomura: barely able to contain his excitement, Sonomura claims that he has cracked a secret cryptographic code based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold-Bug and now knows exactly when and where a murder will take place -- and they must hurry if they want to witness the murder, because it's later that very night! Sonomura has a history of lunacy and playing the amateur detective, so Takahashi is of course reluctant to believe him. Nevertheless, they stake out the secret location, and through tiny peepholes in the knotted wood, become voyeurs at the scene of a shocking crime ... Atmospheric, erotic, and tense, Devils in Daylight is an early work by the master storyteller who "created a lifelong series of ingenious variations on a dominant theme: the power of love to energize and destroy" (Chicago Tribune)"--

Publication Details

Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2019
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780811228756
Language: en

About Unknown Author

> Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎, Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, 24 July 1886 – 30 July 1965) was a Japanese author who is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in modern Japanese literature. The tone and subject matter of his work ranges from shocking depictions of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions to subtle portrayals of the dynamics of family life within the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society. Frequently, his stories are narrated in the context of a search for cultural identity in which constructions of the West and Japanese tradition are juxtaposed. >He was one of six authors on the final shortlist for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, the year before his death. --- [From Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun%27ichir%C5%8D_Tanizaki)