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 How did it come about that his wife-who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings-ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighborhood?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

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;b Seicho Matsumotox{0026}lt;/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 x{0026}lt;i Historia del diario de Kokurax{0026}lt;/i (x{0026}lt;i Aru Kokura-nikki denx{0026}lt;/i , 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 x{0026}lt;i La vozx{0026}lt;/i (x{0026}lt;i Koex{0026}lt;/i , 1955), x{0026}lt;i El expreso de Tokiox{0026}lt;/i (x{0026}lt;i Ten tosenx{0026}lt;/i , 1958; Libros del Asteroide, 2014), x{0026}lt;i El inspector Imanishi investigax{0026}lt;/i (x{0026}lt;i Suna no utsuwax{0026}lt;/i , 1961), x{0026}lt;i La chica de Kyushux{0026}lt;/i (x{0026}lt;i Kiri no hatax{0026}lt;/i , 1961; Libros del Asteroide, 2017) y x{0026}lt;i Un lugar desconocidox{0026}lt;/i (x{0026}lt;i Kikanakatta Bashox{0026}lt;/i , 1975; Libros del Asteroide, 2021). x{0026}lt;/p