num_pages: 219
description: The vice and virtues of middle age are espied with an eagle eye in this hardboiled story about a mid-career gangster. Unfolding thorugh chiseled sketches and run through with tantalizing motifs, Kitakata's masterpiece follows the fortunes of a yakuza mobster as his moment of truth approaches. Cool, real, and cleansing, Ashes is a literary tonic.
language: English
title: Ashes
titlecomplete: Ashes
genres: Asian Literature, Noir, Japan, Japanese Literature, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 185
publisher: Vertical