On Parole Yoshimura AkiraPaperback
On Parole Yoshimura AkiraPaperback After spending sixteen years in prison for a crime of the heart, Shiro Kikutani is released into a world he no longer recognizes. In a spare yet powerful style,…
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On Parole Yoshimura AkiraPaperback
After spending sixteen years in prison for a crime of the heart, Shiro Kikutani is released into a world he no longer recognizes. In a spare yet powerful style, Akira Yoshimura paints the psychology of a quiet man navigating his way through the unsuspected traumas of freedom-finding a job, finding a home, even something as simple as buying an alarm clock. He must readjust to the bright and vigorous stimulus of Tokyo while fending off his own dark memories.
A subtly powerful story, On Parole explores the fragile life of a murderer and the conditions of freedom in an unforgiving society. Kikutani takes comfort in the numbing repetition of his new daily life, only to be drawn inexorably back to the scene of his crime. Yoshimura's startling novel raises provocative questions of guilt and