Shūichi Yoshida
Contemporary Japanese novelist whose works of fiction have received critical attention and several have been adapted for film.
Books
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1. Villain
After the discovery of a young woman's body, attention falls on two men connected to her life — a withdrawn, itinerant worker and a conflicted friend whose secret entanglements and shame link them to the crime. Told through intimate, shifting perspectives, the narrative probes how loneliness, class tension, gossip and public scrutiny distort truth and identity, showing how ordinary human failures and social pressure can manufacture a ‘villain’ and leave lasting moral ambiguity.
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