After spending sixteen years in prison for a crime of the heart, Shiro Kikutani is released into a world he no longer recognizes. He must readjust to the bright and vigorous stimulus of Tokyo while fending off his own dark memories. In a spare yet powerful style, Akira Yoshimura paints the psychology of a quiet man navigating his way through the unsuspected traumas of freedom-finding a job, finding a home, even something as simple as buying an alarm clock. Kikutani takes comfort in the numbing repetition of his new daily life, only to be drawn inexorably back to the scene of his crime. A subtly powerful story, On Parole explores the fragile life of a murderer and the conditions of freedom in an unforgiving society. Yoshimura's startling novel raises provocative questions of guilt and redemption.


Author: Akira Yoshimura
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harpervia
Published: 11/03/2000
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.51w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780156011471


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/21/2001 pg. 28

About the Author
Yoshimura, Akira: - Akira Yoshimura is the prize-winning author of twenty novels and short-story collections, many of them bestsellers in Japan. One Man's Justice is his third novel to be translated into English.