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People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
Blackman, Lucie Jane;Obara, Joji;Lloyd Parry, Richard
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Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, chronicles the 2000 disappearance, massive search, long investigation, and the even longer murder trial behind the gruesome murder case of Lucie Blackman in Japan.;Prologue: life before death -- Part I: Lucie. The world the right way round -- Rules -- Long haul -- Part II: Tokyo. High touch town -- Geisha girl! (joke) -- Tokyo is the extreme land -- Part III: the search. Something terrible has happened -- Unintelligible speech -- The flickering light -- S & M -- The man-shaped hole -- Dignity of the police -- The palm trees by the sea -- Part IV: Obara. The weak and the strong -- George O'Hara -- Conquest play -- Carita -- In the cave -- Part V: justice. Ceremonies -- The whateverer -- Smyk -- Condolence -- The verdict -- Part VI: life after death. How Japanese -- What I really am.
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Year:
2012
Edition:
1st American ed
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language:
English
Pages:
454 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
ISBN 10:
0374230595
ISBN 13:
9780374230593
ISBN:
9780374230593,0374230595
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