Twilight in Musashino
Paperback Published on: 04/03/2027; Language: English, Japanese (Original language of a translated text)
Price: £9.99
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Masterful!
Tense, atmospheric & immersive; I could read Matsumoto over and over without ever getting bored of his evocative descriptive prowess. Not your classic murd... READ MORE
Slow burn, thought provoking crime novel.
If you like your crime writing right up front and centre then this may not be the book for you as the detective aspect really doesn't hit the ground runnin... READ MORE
Captivating
A new yet familiar Japanese noir crime thriller from one of the newest classical authors to be recently placed into the spotlight by way of republication: ... READ MORE
Publisher information
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780241723463
- Number of pages: 160
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 11 mm
- Weight: 122g
- Languages: English, Japanese (Original language of a translated text)
Customer Reviews
View allQuiet Tensions Beneath the Twilight”
Twilight in Musashino is a concise psychological novel set against the quiet suburban backdrop of the Musashino area on the outskirts of Tokyo. Seichō Mats... READ MORE
Slow burner
A very slow burner but if you can cope with the slowness of the story it is a well told story. Set in Japan in the 1950's. There's corruption and a wall o... READ MORE
Thought provoking read
Twilight in Musashino is translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood. Set in post WW2 Japan it is a slow burn crime story, told in minute detail as the Gugl... READ MORE
Good in parts
This was billed as a police procedural and I think it does the book dirty. This is a study of corruption throughout the Japanese system of church and state... READ MORE
Strange, chilling and claustrophobic
This is a very strange and chilling account of life in post-war Japan and the world of the Gugliamo church. It is very detailed and very slow-moving, but t... READ MORE
Drawn out ultra slow burner
Poorly translated, drawn out ultra slow burner. I have not read any books by this author and doubt if I will read anymore. Thanks to the publisher and NetG... READ MORE
Good
A very slow burner but if you can cope with the slowness of the story it is a well told story. Set in Japan in the 1950's. There's corruption and a wall o... READ MORE
Priest in the frame
Set in late 1960s Japanthis is a murder mystery which isn't a mystery, since the first half of the book desribes the events and relationships which lead to... READ MORE
Heartbreaking and Tragic
Twilight in Musashino by Seicho Matsumoto is a crime novel translated from the original in Japanese.Set in 1950s post-war Japan, it fuses Western Catholici... READ MORE
Very slow
I have read a couple of crime novels by Japanese authors, but this was nothing like them. For a start the crime doesn’t happen until we are about half way ... READ MORE
I was hooked, right through to the very last word.
Took me a chapter or three to "discover" the path the tale was taking and then I was hooked, right through to the very last word. Have to wonder whether th... READ MORE
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