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Fuminori Nakamura was born in 1977 and graduated from Fukushima University in 2000. He has won numerous prizes for his writing, including Japan's prestigious Ōe Prize; the David L. Goodis Award for Noir Fiction; and the Akutagawa Prize. The Thief, his first novel to be translated into English, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His other novels include Cult X, The Gun, The Kingdom, Evil and the Mask, The Boy in the Earth, My Annihilation, and Last Winter, We Parted. Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator. His translation work has won the Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize and been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
Praise for Fuminori Nakamura [A] lurid and intellectually ambitious new thriller . . . Every time you think you grasp what's going on, Nakamura reminds you that you are not in control here. Perhaps you are never in control. -The New York Times Book Review Nakamura's impassioned writing is part of a continuum that stretches from Dostoevsky to Camus to Oe. -Los Angeles Times You'll think about Nakamura's questions long after you've closed his book's covers. -NPR [Nakamura] has made a career out of pushing the boundaries of existential horror, shining a light on the darkest shadows of humanity . . . This chilling psychological mystery about a violent crime promises not to disappoint. Expect anything but a happy ending. -The Japan Times
