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“A minimalist sliver of Tokyo noir…An intelligent, compelling, and surprisingly moving tale, and highly recommended.”
— The Guardian (London)
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“Strangely, compulsively readable for its portrait of a dark,
crumbling, graffiti-scarred Tokyo—and the desire to understand the mysterious
thief.”
— Booklist
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“More Conrad than Connelly…A breath of fresh air for readers looking for something beyond the procedural.”
— Time Out Chicago
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“I defy you not to finish the book in a single
sitting.”
— Richmond Times-Dispatch
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“His grasp of the seamy underbelly of the city
is why Nakamura is one of the most award-winning young guns of Japanese
hard-boiled detective writing.”
— Daily Beast
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“I was deeply impressed with The Thief. It is fresh.”
— Kenzaburō Ōe, Nobel Prize–winning author
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“Fast-paced, elegantly written, and rife with
the symbols of inevitability.”
— ForeWord
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“More than a crime novel, The Thief is a narrative that delves
deep into the meaning of theft and the nature of justice…Japanese crime fiction
has a new star.”
— Out of the Gutter
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“The drily philosophical tone and the noir
atmosphere combine perfectly, providing a rapid and enjoyable ‘read’ that is
nonetheless cool and distant, provoking the reader to think about (as much as
experience) the tale.”
— International Noir Fiction
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“Compelling…Nakamura’s memorable antihero, at once as believably
efficient as Donald Westlake’s Parker and as disaffected as a Camus
protagonist, will impress genre and literary readers alike.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“Disguised as fast-paced, shock-fueled crime
fiction, The Thief resonates even
more as a treatise on contemporary disconnect and paralyzing isolation.”
— Library Journal