Seventeen

A meditative and multilayered narrative that is as much about a man at a mid-life crossroads as it is about journalism or a plane crash. —Los Angeles Review of Books1985. Kazumasa Yuuki a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times runs a daily gauntlet of 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 is united by an unimaginable horror and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop.2003. Seventeen years later Yuuki remembers the adrenaline-fueled 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 solved mystery and represents Yuuki''s final unconquered fear.From Hideo Yokoyama the celebrated author of Six Four comes Seventeen—an investigative thriller set amid the aftermath of disaster.Adrenaline-filled. —The New YorkerTense and powerful. —The Wall Street JournalAn astringent unforgiving picture of modern Japanese society. —Barry Forshaw The GuardianSeventeen is a thrilling thought-provoking and important book and one for anyone who cares about the state of journalism. —Hans Rollmann PopMattersAn engrossing thriller . . . Readers will be deeply moved. —Publishers WeeklyA darkly humorous tale. —Booklist