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People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan’s Shadows (Paperback)
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People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan’s Shadows (Paperback)

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Published: 02/02/2012
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*** 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 Lucie's 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 Lucie's bitterly divided family to reveal the astonishing truth about Lucie and her fate.

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099502555
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 354 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 32 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

An extraordinary, compulsive and brilliant book...very, very moving - David Peace

Difficult to put down... impossible to forget - Minette Walters

A 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 Cleave

Open-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 isn't 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

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“A truly moving book...”

Richard Parry is truly an amazing writer and proves this in People Who Eat Darkness! You feel the compassion, empathy and love of a young girl who was so tragically taken and off the other women who were taken by that... More

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