Last Winter, We Parted
Subtitle: a novel
By: Fuminori Nakamura ; translated from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell
Contributors: Powell, Allison Markin, translator
Publisher: Soho
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Translated from: jpn
Translation of: 去年の冬、きみと別れ
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781616954550
Subjects: Authors; Investigation; Murder; Fiction
Work titles: Kyonen no fuyu kimi to wakare
Description: A young writer is assigned a difficult task by his editor: he is to write an investigative biography of a death row inmate named Yudai Kiharazaka, a thirty-five-year-old photographer who has been convicted of the murders of two women. Kiharazaka's victims--or his "models"--had been burned alive while the photographer tried to capture the perfect picture of their essences. But trying to unearth the truth about Kiharazaka will force the writer to grapple with horrifying archival material and to interview dangerous, grotesque people--not least of all Kiharazaka himself.
Notes: Translation from the Japanese of: Kyonen no fuyu, kimi to wakare.