A darkly melancholic tale that combines Scorsese's Taxi Driver and Camus' The Fall set in Tokyo--Nakamura's Akutagawa Prize-winning novel, one of Japan's most prestigious literary awards, is the here translated into English for the first time and marks another high-water mark in this important writer's career. The Akutagawa Prize-Winning Novel As an unnamed Tokyo taxi driver works a night shift, picking up fares that offer him glimpses into the lives of ordinary people, he can't escape his own nihilistic thoughts. Almost without meaning to, he puts...
A darkly melancholic tale that combines Scorsese's Taxi Driver and Camus' The Fall set in Tokyo--Nakamura's Akutagawa Prize-winning n...
