Snakeskin Shamisen

ISBN-13: 9780385339612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 255 str.

Naomi Hirahara

Opis

From Summer of the Big Bachi to Gasa-Gasa Girl, Naomi Hirahara s acclaimed novels have featured one of mystery fiction s most unique heroes: Mas Arai, a curmudgeonly L.A. gardener, Hiroshima survivor, and inveterate gambler.
Few things get Mas more excited than gambling, so when he hears about a $500,000 win from a novelty slot machine he s torn between admiration and derision. But the stakes are quickly raised when the winner, a friend of Mas s pal G. I. Hasuike, is found stabbed to death just days later. The last thing Mas wants to do is stick his nose in someone else s business, but at G.I. s prodding he reluctantly agrees to follow the trail of a battered snakeskin shamisen (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of the crime and suddenly finds himself caught up in a dark mystery that reaches from the islands of Okinawa to the streets of L.A. a world of heartbreaking memories, deception, and murder."