num_pages: 232
description: Kazuya Takino leads a quiet life running a supermarket in the Tokyo suburbs. But when an extortionist tries to force him out of business, he finds himself drawn into the yakuza underworld-a world he once called home and thought he had left behind. Pursuing him is Detective Takagi, an aficionado of French cigarettes and modernist poetry, the most decorated inspector on the Tokyo police force. As the shadowy Maruwa gang engages Takino in an escalating cycle of violence and retaliation, Detective Takagi can only stand by and watch as the beast within Takino is lured further and further out of his cage.A towering masterpiece of the hardboiled genre, The Cage is at once a searing portrayal of the violence of the Japanese underworld and a tender mediation of the ties of love and friend that can save men from madness-or plunge them deeper into it.
language: English
title: The Cage
titlecomplete: The Cage
genres: Noir, Mystery, Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 250
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Naoki Prize 直木三十五賞, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Mystery Writers of Japan Award (日本推理作家協会賞)
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize 日本冒険小説協会大賞特別賞
category: Best Japanese Novel
publisher: Vertical