Seesaw Monster

Kotaro Isaka, Sam Malissa

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Harvill
01 July 2025

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & Mystery; Espionage & spy thriller; Short stories; Fiction in translation

Two inventive tales of espionage in one, from the internationally bestselling author of Japanese fiction sensation Bullet Train

Two inventive tales of espionage in one, from the internationally bestselling author of Japanese fiction sensation Bullet Train

In Japan's recent past, Miyako suspects her mother-in-law is a murderer. She uses her secret skills as an ex-spy to investigate her, while trying to maintain a peaceful home life.

And in Japan's not-too-distant future, a courier named Mito finds himself embroiled in the death of the developer of a sinister AI surveillance system.

Seesaw Monster contains two sharp, thrilling novellas from the bestselling and multi-award-winning writer Kotaro Isaka.

By: Kotaro Isaka
Translated by: Sam Malissa
Imprint: Harvill
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 429g
ISBN: 9781787304734
ISBN 10: 1787304736
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Kotaro Isaka (Author) Kotaro Isaka is a bestselling and multi-award-winning writer who is published around the world. He has won the Shincho Mystery Club Award, Mystery Writers of Japan Award, Japan Booksellers' Award and the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize and fourteen of his books have been adapted for film or TV. He is the author of the international bestseller Bullet Train, which was made into a major film starring Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock. Sam Malissa (Translator) Sam Malissa holds a PhD in Japanese Literature from Yale University. He has translated fiction by Toshiki Okada, Shun Medoruma, and Hideo Furukawa, among others.

Reviews for Seesaw Monster

Thoroughly enjoyable * Guardian, on BULLET TRAIN * Unlike anything you're likely to have read before...white-hot with double-crosses * Financial Times, on BULLET TRAIN * Entertaining...high-speed...with lots of twists and turns...it has a Tarantino-meets-the-Coen-Brothers feel to it * The Times, on BULLET TRAIN * An offbeat but touching thriller, with a wonderful final twist * Mail on Sunday, on THE MANTIS *