Seicho Matsumoto A Quiet Place review, recensie en informatie over de Japanse thriller uit 1971. Op 7 augustus 2025 verschijnt als Penguin Classic de Engelse vertaling van 聞かなかった場所, de detective van Seicho Matsumoto, de uit Japan afkomstige schrijver. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.
Seicho Matsumoto A Quiet Place review en recensie
- “A thrillingly dark novel from Japan’s Agatha Christie.” (Sunday Times)
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
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 How did it come about that his wife, who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighbourhood?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.