A Quiet Place

Resumen del libro

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 How did it come about that his wife-who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings-ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighborhood? When Tsuneo goes to apologize to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wife's death he discovers that she led a double life. He eventually confronts her lover, and, in a moment of panic, kills him. The police are stymied, however Tsuneo, the brilliant bureaucrat who usually leaves nothing to chance but is now hunted as a common murderer, feels the pressure and starts making mistakes.

Biografía del autor

p b Seicho Matsumoto /b (1909-1992) fue un prolífico escritor japonés. Comenzó a publicar cuando ya tenía más de cuarenta años, pero su carrera literaria no despegó hasta su segundo libro, cuando recibió el premio Akutagawa por i Historia del diario de Kokura /i (Aru Kokuranikki den, 1952). Matsumoto recibió alguno de los más prestigiosos premios literarios de su país y está considerado uno de los principales escritores japoneses de novela negra. Entre sus libros destacan i La voz /i (Koe, 1955), i El expreso de Tokio /i (Ten to sen, 1958; Libros del Asteroide, 2014), i Punto cero /i (Zero no shoten, 1959; Libros del Asteroide, 2025), i El castillo de arena /i (Suna no utsuwa, 1961; Libros del Asteroide, 2023), i La chica de Kyushu /i (Kiri no hata, 1961; Libros del Asteroide, 2017) y i Un lugar desconocido /i (Kikanakatta Basho, 1975; Libros del Asteroide, 2021).<br>