{"id":16110,"date":"2012-02-15T11:11:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T15:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=16110"},"modified":"2015-08-17T09:56:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T13:56:22","slug":"the-thief-by-fuminori-nakamura-translated-by-satoko-izumo-and-stephen-coates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-thief-by-fuminori-nakamura-translated-by-satoko-izumo-and-stephen-coates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2012\/02\/Thief-Nakamura.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27668\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2012\/02\/Thief-Nakamura.jpg\" alt=\"Thief Nakamura\" width=\"341\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>Handpicked by Nobel Laureate Kenzabur\u014d \u014ce for his eponymous \u014ce Prize in 2009, Nakamura \u2013 who has also previously garnered many of Japan\u2019s other top awards (Noma Literary New Face Prize, the coveted Akutagawa Prize) \u2013 makes his Stateside debut-in-translation.<\/p>\n<p>Disguised as fast-paced, shock-fueled crime fiction, <em>Thief<\/em> resonates even more as a treatise on contemporary disconnect and paralyzing isolation.\u00a0The protagonist \u2013 a virtuoso pickpocket with Robin Hood-tendencies \u2013 agrees to participate in what initially seems to be a simple robbery for a lucrative fee, only to get inescapably embroiled with the Tokyo crime world\u2019s omnipotent power elite. Meanwhile, his last tenuous connection to society is a desperate young boy forced to clumsily shoplift by his addicted, prostitute mother.\u00a0With nowhere left to run, the thief must barter his life with a labyrinthine test of his thieving prowess.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>: Mystery\/crime aficionados with exacting literary standards, as well as readers familiar with already-established-in-translation Japanese writers Miyuki Miyabe (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/2005\/04\/07\/shadow-family-by-miyuki-miyabe-translated-by-juliet-winters-carpenter\/\">Shadow Family<\/a><\/em>), Natsuo Kirino (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/2003\/08\/29\/out-by-natsuo-kirino-translated-by-stephen-snyder\/\">Out<\/a><\/em>, <em>Grotesque<\/em>), and Keigo Higashino (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/2004\/10\/08\/naoko-by-keigo-higashino-translated-by-kerim-yasar\/\">Naoko<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/2012\/05\/11\/the-devotion-of-suspect-x-by-keigo-higashino-translated-by-alexander-o-smith-with-elye-j-alexander\/\"><em>The Devotion of Suspect X<\/em><\/a>), will especially enjoy discovering Nakamura.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/reviewscenter.mediasourceinc.net\/detail%2FLibrary%20Journal%2F2012-Feb15%2F17-4743627164240289171.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, February 15, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2012 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handpicked by Nobel Laureate Kenzabur\u014d \u014ce for his eponymous \u014ce Prize in 2009, Nakamura \u2013 who has also previously garnered many of Japan\u2019s other top awards (Noma Literary New Face Prize, the coveted Akutagawa Prize) \u2013 makes his Stateside debut-in-translation. Disguised as fast-paced, shock-fueled crime&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,76,6535,66],"tags":[6608,11,1229,70,13,212,216,1230,1231,1232],"class_list":["post-16110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-japanese","category-repost","category-translation","tag-bookdragon","tag-friendship","tag-fuminori-nakamura","tag-library-journal","tag-love","tag-murder","tag-mystery","tag-satoko-izumo","tag-stephen-coates","tag-thief"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates [in Library Journal] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-thief-by-fuminori-nakamura-translated-by-satoko-izumo-and-stephen-coates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates [in Library Journal] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Handpicked by Nobel Laureate Kenzabur\u014d \u014ce for his eponymous \u014ce Prize in 2009, Nakamura \u2013 who has also previously garnered many of Japan\u2019s other top awards (Noma Literary New Face Prize, the coveted Akutagawa Prize) \u2013 makes his Stateside debut-in-translation. 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