Seventeen: the new novel from the bestselling Japanese sensation - Softcover

A gripping newsroom drama . . . it's a testament to Yokoyama's narrative skills that this story of office politics remains taut and tense through every page . . . a fantastic page turner. * Japan Times * An education about Japan. -- David Peace A binge read. -- Mark Lawson * Guardian * Addictive. * The Times * Yokoyama possesses that elusive trait of a first-rate novelist: the ability to grab readers' interest and never let go. * Washington Post * Yokoyama's successor to the mesmeric Six Four is every bit as ambitious and compelling. Reinventing the genre of the investigative thriller to create something rich and strange. -- Barry Forshaw Seventeen is a brilliant novel on any level - but as a thriller it's a gripping page turner, while remaining moving and complex. It's a deeply satisfying read and it will be a while before I read anything as good. -- William Ryan

From the sunday times bestselling author of six four: a tense investigation in the aftermath of an air disaster - for fans of spotlight and after the crash. 'he's a master' new york times book review 'very different; to almost anything out there' observer 1985; kazumasa yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the north kanto times, runs a daily gauntlet against the power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom; but when an air disaster of unprecedented scale occurs on the paper's doorstep, its staff are united by an unimaginable horror, and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop. 2002; seventeen years later, yuuki remembers the adrenaline-fuelled, emotionally charged seven days that changed his and his colleagues' lives; he does so while making good on a promise he made that fateful week - one that holds the key to its last unsolved mystery, and represents yuuki's final, unconquered fear. 'seventeen is a brilliant novel on any level - it's a gripping page turner, while remaining moving and complex; it's a deeply satisfying read and it will be a while before i read anything as good' william ryan 'an astringent, unforgiving picture of modern japanese society' guardian