People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan's Shadows by Richa

Description: People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and twenty-one years old - had stepped into the vastness of a Tokyo summer and disappeared forever. That winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult? FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A deeply compelling and chilling journey into the dark side of Japan, centred on the tragic case of Lucie Blackman.*** Richard Lloyd Parry is the Winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize ***In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and twenty-one years old - had stepped into the vastness of a Tokyo summer and disappeared forever. That winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a desolate seaside cave.Her disappearance was mystifying. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult? Who was the mysterious man she had gone to meet? What did her work, as a hostess in the notorious Roppongi district of Tokyo, really involve? And could Lucies fate be linked to the disappearance of another girl some ten years earlier?Over the course of a decade, Richard Lloyd Parry has travelled to four continents to interview those caught up in the story and been given unprecedented access to Lucies bitterly divided family to reveal the astonishing truth about Lucie and her fate. Notes A deeply compelling journey into the dark side of Japan, which centres on the tragic case of Lucie Blackman, the British girl who was murdered there in 2000. Back Cover This is an extraordinary book which stands as far above the true crime label as Paradise Lost does above the category verse... No avenue is left unexplored, no thought is too oblique to be uttered, no psychological puzzle too disturbing to be investigated - Bel Mooney, Daily Mail A skilful, definitive history of one of the most notorious crimes of the past decade - Sunday Times Richard Lloyd Parry has produced a work not only of page-turning intensity but also of touching sensitivity and deep insight. That he could have created something almost noble from such base material is a minor miracle of literary alchemy. The book is brilliantly written - David Pilling, Financial Times An extraordinary book, passionately and meticulously told... I read it with my breath held and found I couldnt relax, think or get on with my life until Id finished it - Julie Myerson Parry shows a rare compassion and a refusal to judge - Jonathan Coe, Guardian, Books of the Yea r A sobering affair... A true crime thriller, sensitively handled and unsparing in its quest for answers - Megan Walsh, The Times An evenhanded investigation of a murder - New York Times At the heart of this extraordinary and brilliant book about the search, and its aftermath, in 2000 for a 21 year old British girl, Lucie Blackman, who disappeared one summer in Tokyo, in one of the darkest stories Ive ever read...a truly disturbing but fascinating read.I read it in one horrified gulp - Carla McKay, Daily Mail As mysterious as its title, this extraordinary true crime tale is up there with Truman Capotes In Cold Blood - Toni & Guy Magazine Author Biography Richard Lloyd Parry is Asia Editor of The Times. He was born in 1969 and was educated at Oxford. He has been visiting Asia for eighteen years and since 1995 has lived in Tokyo as a foreign correspondent, first for the Independent and now for The Times. He has reported from twenty-one countries and several wars, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, East Timor, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Kosovo and Macedonia. His work has also appeared in the London Review of Books and the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of In The Time of Madness, an eyewitness account of the violence that interrupted in Indonesia in the 1990s, and People Who Eat Darkness- The Fate of Lucie Blackman. Review An extraordinary, compulsive and brilliant book...very, very moving -- David PeaceDifficult to put down... impossible to forget -- Minette WaltersA skilful, definitive history of one of the most notorious crimes of the past decade * Sunday Times *This is In Cold Blood for our times... Everyone who has ever loved someone and held that life dear should read this stunning book, and shiver -- Chris CleaveOpen-minded and sympathetic, despite being driven half mad by the case, Parry, former Asia correspondent for the Independent and The Times, is the best kind of narrator of a tale that isnt just a murder case but a book that sheds light on Japan, on families, on the media, and on the insidious effects of misogyny -- Blake Morrison * Guardian * Promotional A deeply compelling and chilling journey into the dark side of Japan, centred on the tragic case of Lucie Blackman Prizes Short-listed for Gordon Burn Prize 2013 (UK) Review Text An extraordinary, compulsive and brilliant book...very, very moving Review Quote " People Who Eat Darkness is an extraordinary, compulsive and brilliant book. The account of the crime, the investigation and the trial -- particularly in its knowledge and understanding of the Japan in which this tragedy took place -- is both insightful and gripping; the attempt to understand Obara is fascinating but never ghoulish; and finally, and most of all, the compassion for Lucie Blackman and her family is very, very moving." -David Peace Promotional "Headline" A deeply compelling and chilling journey into the dark side of Japan, centred on the tragic case of Lucie Blackman Details ISBN0099502550 Author Richard Lloyd Parry Year 2012 ISBN-10 0099502550 ISBN-13 9780099502555 Media Book Publication Date 2012-02-02 Imprint Vintage Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 416 Illustrations Illustrations Series Vintage Books Language English Publisher Vintage Publishing DEWEY 364.1523092 Format Paperback Short Title People Who Eat Darkness UK Release Date 2012-02-02 AU Release Date 2012-02-02 NZ Release Date 2012-02-02 Subtitle Love, Grief and a Journey into Japans Shadows Alternative 9781448155613 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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