A quiet place
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A quiet place
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- Label
- A quiet place
- Statement of responsibility
- Seicho Matsumoto ; translated by Louise Heal Kawai
- Subject
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- trueMarried women -- Death
- trueExtramarital affairs
- trueInvestigations
- trueJapan
- Japan -- Fiction
- Japanese fiction -- Translations into English
- Married people -- Fiction
- trueObsession
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Truthfulness and falsehood -- Fiction
- trueWidowers
- Widowers -- Fiction
- Widowers -- Japan -- Fiction
- Wives -- Death -- Fiction
- trueCivil service workers
- trueDeception
- trueDomestic fiction
- Language
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- eng
- jpn
- eng
- Summary
- While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn't totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly-spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed. How did it come about that his wife -- who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings -- ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighbourhood? When Tsuneo goes to apologise to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wife's death he discovers the villa Tachibana near by, a house known to be a meeting place for secret lovers. As he digs deeper into his wife's recent past, he must eventually conclude that she led a double life...
- Cataloging source
- APLS
- Index
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- Language note
- Translated from the Japanese
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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