A Quiet Place
- Auteur: Seicho Matsumoto (Japan)
- Soort boek: Japanse thriller
- Origineel: 聞かなかった場所 (1971)
- Engelse vertaling:
- Uitgever: Penguin Classics
- Verschijnt: 7 augustus 2025
- Omvang: 240 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 14,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Seicho Matsumoto A Quiet Place review en recensie
- “A thrillingly dark novel from Japan’s Agatha Christie.” (Sunday Times)
Flaptekst van de thriller van Seicho Matsumoto
While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn’t totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed. How did it come about that his wife, who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighbourhood?
When Tsuneo goes to apologize to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wife’s death he discovers the villa Tachibana near by, a house known to be a meeting place for secret lovers. As he digs deeper into his wife’s recent past, he must eventually conclude that she led a double life.
Seicho Matsumoto was born 21 December 1909 in Fukuoka, Japan. Self-educated, Matsumoto published his first book when he was forty years old and he quickly established himself as a master of crime fiction. His exploration of human psychology and Japanese post-war malaise, coupled with the creation of twisting, dark mysteries, made him one of the most acclaimed and best-selling writers in Japan. He received the prestigious Akutagawa Literary Prize in 1950 and the Kikuchi Kan Prize in 1970. He died on 4 August 1992 in Tokyo Women’s Medical University Hospital at the age of 82.