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    A Man
    A Man
    A Man
    Audiobook10 hours

    A Man

    Written by Keiichiro Hirano

    Narrated by Brian Nishii

    4.5/5

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    • Identity

    • Family Relationships

    • Family

    • Friendship

    • Legal System

    • Love Triangle

    • Coming of Age

    • Prodigal Son

    • Fish Out of Water

    • Power of Friendship

    • Mentorship

    • Redemption

    • Family Drama

    • Family Secrets

    • Mentor Figure

    • Capital Punishment

    • Relationships

    • Grief & Loss

    • Literature

    • Death

    About this audiobook

    A man follows another man’s trail of lies in a compelling psychological story about the search for identity, by Japan’s award-winning literary sensation Keiichiro Hirano in his first novel to be translated into English.

    Akira Kido is a divorce attorney whose own marriage is in danger of being destroyed by emotional disconnect. With a midlife crisis looming, Kido’s life is upended by the reemergence of a former client, Rié Takemoto. She wants Kido to investigate a dead man—her recently deceased husband, Daisuké. Upon his death she discovered that he’d been living a lie. His name, his past, his entire identity belonged to someone else, a total stranger. The investigation draws Kido into two intriguing mysteries: finding out who Rié’s husband really was and discovering more about the man he pretended to be. Soon, with each new revelation, Kido will come to share the obsession with—and the lure of—erasing one life to create a new one.

    In A Man, winner of Japan’s prestigious Yomiuri Prize for Literature, Keiichiro Hirano explores the search for identity, the ambiguity of memory, the legacies with which we live and die, and the reconciliation of who you hoped to be with who you’ve actually become.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    TranslatorEli K. P. William
    Release dateJun 1, 2020
    ISBN9781799754732
    A Man
    Author

    Keiichiro Hirano

    Keiichiro Hirano is an award-winning and bestselling novelist whose debut novel, The Eclipse, won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1998, when he was a twenty-three-year-old university student. A cultural envoy to Paris appointed by Japan’s Ministry of Cultural Affairs, he has given lectures throughout Europe. Widely read in France, China, Korea, Taiwan, Italy, and Egypt, Hirano is also the author of At the End of the Matinee, a runaway bestseller in Japan, among many other books. His short fiction has appeared in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature. A Man, winner of Japan’s Yomiuri Prize for Literature, is the first of Hirano’s novels to be translated into English. For more information, visit en.k-hirano.com and follow Hirano on Twitter at @hiranok_en.

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    • 5/5
      A complex story of swapping family identities that is very Japanese (having partly to do with anti-Korean prejudice and family shame about criminality) that somehow manages to reflect universal realities. Well read as well.
    • 5/5
      Really fascinating story. In the best way reminds me of a Percival Everett novel
    • 4/5
      Distanced but tender story about love, family and crime. Great narrator
    • 5/5
      If when I put the book down, I continue to think about it and can't wait to continue, then I rate it 5 stars.