Parade
  • Published: 2 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780099526643
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $26.99

Parade

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2 Mar 2015
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This is Tokyo as you have never seen it before. A masterpiece of tension from the author of the cult classic Villain

Four twenty-somethings share an apartment in Tokyo. In Parade each tells their story: their lives, their hopes and fears, their loves, their secrets.

Kotomi waits by the phone for a boyfriend who never calls. Ryosuke wants someone that he can’t have. Mirai spends her days drawing and her nights hanging out in gay bars. Naoki works for a film company, and everyone treats him like an elder brother. Then Satoru turns up. He’s eighteen, homeless, and does night work of a very particular type.

In the next-door apartment something disturbing is going on. And outside, in the streets around their apartment block, there is violence in the air. From the writer of the cult classic Villain, Parade is a tense, disturbing, thrilling tale of life in the city.
  • Published: 2 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780099526643
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $26.99
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About the author

Shuichi Yoshida

Shuichi Yoshida was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1968. He is the author of numerous books and has won many Japanese literary awards, including the Akutayawa Prize for Park Life, and the prestigious Osaragi Jiro Prize and the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award, both of which he received for Villain. Several of his stories have been adapted for Japanese television, and a film based on Villain is due to be released in 2010 in Japan as Akunin. Yoshida lives in Tokyo.

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Praise for Parade

Startling... It is a fascinating story of how five people can co-exist, written in each character's own words... The unexpected, if almost inevitable conclusion brings things to a brilliant end

UK Press Syndication

A sharply observed slice of urban alienation

Laura Wilson, Guardian

Imagine if Friends had ended with the revelation that Chandler was a psychopath – and that Joey, Monica, Ross, Phoebe and Rachel weren't bothered by it. Yoshida locates horror less in violence than in the kind of atomisation that would permit it

Yo Zushi, New Statesman

A brilliant book

UK Press Syndication

An authentic exploration of everyday life in contemporary Japan

Alexandra Lawrie, Times Literary Supplement

Unsettling, prosaic, effortlessly profound… Yoshida creates a Tokyo both mundane and chilling, a metropolis not of neon and punk but of small rooms in which people who live with each other may as well just be passengers on a subway train, marking time until a stop that never comes

Stephen Joyce, Nudge