Richard Lloyd Parry is the Winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize In the summer of 2000,Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall,blonde,and twenty-one years old - had stepped into the vastness of a Tokyo summer and disappeared forever. That winter,her dismembered remains were found buried in a desolate seaside cave.Her disappearance was mystifying. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult Who was the mysterious man she had gone to meet What did her work,as a'hostess'in the notorious Roppongi district of Tokyo,really involve And could Lucie's fate be linked to the disappearance of another girl some ten years earlierOver the course of a decade,Richard Lloyd Parry has travelled to four continents to interview those caught up in the story and been given unprecedented access to Lucie's bitterly divided family to reveal the astonishing truth about Lucie and her fate.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099502555Number of pages: 416Weight: 357 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 30 mm
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An extraordinary,compulsive and brilliant book...very,very movingDifficult to put down... impossible to forgetA skilful,definitive history of one of the most notorious crimes of the past decadeThis is In Cold Blood for our times... Everyone who has ever loved someone and held that life dear should read this stunning book,and shiverOpen-minded and sympathetic,despite being driven half mad by the case,Parry,former Asia correspondent for the Independent and The Times,is the best kind of narrator of a tale that isn't just a murder case but a book that sheds light on Japan,on families,on the media,and on the insidious effects of misogyny
Richard Lloyd Parry
A British journalist and author of non-fiction best known for his works on East Asia,Richard Lloyd Parry began reporting from Asia as the Tokyo correspondent for the Independent. Now a foreign correspondent for The Times,Lloyd Parry's books include: In the Time of Madness,People Who Eat Darkness - which was longlisted for the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the Orwell Prize - and Ghosts of the Tsunami which won the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize.
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