[/floatl]Star: The other side of JapanIN Miyuki Miyabe’s Tokyo, the moon hangs low over dark rivers, spiralling debt leads to murder, and a young woman roams the streets setting criminals afire with a single thought. Miyabe has gone from being an office clerk who wrote only on weekends to becoming one of Japan’s most popular, prolific and prize-winning authors with 46 novels to her name. Her works, which cover genres from horror, to fantasy, to historical fiction, have been translated into 11 languages. Miyabe’s popularity across Asia has not extended to the English speaking world, but her publisher hopes this will change with the release of the English translation of her novel The Devil's Whisper
...“Tokyo has two faces. One is the one everyone knows: the economic power, the bright, shining place where all the political power gathers and all the people of strength come together,” Miyabe, who rarely gives interviews, said recently. “But there’s another face, the place where ordinary people live. They can’t take part in the beautiful Tokyo – it’s kind of scary to them – but this is the Tokyo I write about”... While Miyabe is still relatively unknown to English readers, all her books have been translated into Chinese and Korean. She has also been published in Thai, French and Russian...more...All She Was Worth
is a good read but Crossfire
is like a poor Stephen King novel while with Shadow Family
she tries too hard to shoehorn a crime into the setting of a Japanese BBS and doesn't pull it off.
