Cover art for Point Zero
Published
Bitter Lemon Press, March 2024
ISBN
9781913394936
Format
Softcover, 304 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm

Point Zero

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Tokyo, 1958. Teiko marries Kenichi Uhara, ten years her senior, an advertising man recommended by a go-between. After a four-day honeymoon, Kenichi vanishes. Teiko travels to the coastal and snow-bound city of Kanazawa, where Kenichi was last seen, to investigate his disappearance.

When Kenichi's brother comes to help her, he is murdered, poisoned in his hotel room.

Soon, Teiko discovers that her husband's disappearance is tied up with the so-called 'pan-pan girls', women who worked as prostitutes catering to American GIs after the war. Now, ten years later, as the country is recovering, there are those who are willing to take extreme measures to hide that past.

'A master crime writer...Seich Matsumoto's thrillers dissect Japanese society.' The New York Times Book Review

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