Lady Joker reveals its world in rich, polyphonic detail.
DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Our critic-at-large, John Powers, says he s never read a crime novel quite like Lady Joker. It s a panoramic story about a kidnapping that s the first work by Kaoru Takamura to be translated into English. Her book was a sensation in Japan, where it sold a million copies, spawned both a movie and TV series and is routinely taught in Japanese schools. Soho Crime has just released the first of two volumes. Here s John s review.
JOHN POWERS, BYLINE: There are few things I enjoy more than reading crime novels, especially ones that take me someplace unfamiliar. A lot of what I know or think I know about Scandinavia, Italy, France, Argentina or even my home city of Los Angeles I ve gleaned from detective stories and police procedurals. Few have punched me as deep into a different society as Kaoru Takamura s Lady Joker, an eccentric epic about a kidnapping that, since its publication in 1
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