In Search of a Distant Voice

Taichi Yamada, Michael Emmerich

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English

Faber & Faber
01 May 2007

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Horror & ghost stories; Occult

Kazama Tsuneo is an immigration officer in Portland, Oregon, whose job is to catch and evict illegal immigrants to the US, often his own countrymen. Frustrated and repelled by what his life has become he is haunted by the sense that his life is a lie, and by an event that happened eight years previously, the reality of which he seems unable to confront.

Beset by strange passions and emotional fits, Tsuneo's life rapidly disintegrates, a fate compounded by the mysterious woman's voice that Yamada introduces midway into the novel, a voice that speaks of Tsuneo's fears - about his worth, sexuality and identity.

Imbued with a beautiful and melancholy sense of longing, the story becomes a quest narrative in which Tsuneo desperately chases this woman, and the mystery of what happened eight years earlier.

By: Taichi Yamada
Translated by: Michael Emmerich
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 155g
ISBN: 9780571229727
ISBN 10: 0571229727
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 May 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Taichi Yamada worked at the world-renowned Shochiku film studios until he set out on a highly successful career as a freelance scriptwriter and novelist. Winner of the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize for the best human-interest novel, Strangers was published as his English-language debut in 2005.