A Man
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A Man
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Brian Nishii
About this listen
A man follows another man's trail of lies in a compelling psychological story about the search for identity, by Japan's award-winning literary sensation Keiichiro Hirano in his first novel to be translated into English.
Akira Kido is a divorce attorney whose own marriage is in danger of being destroyed by emotional disconnect. With a midlife crisis looming, Kido's life is upended by the reemergence of a former client, Rié Takemoto. She wants Kido to investigate a dead man - her recently deceased husband, Daisuké. Upon his death she discovered that he’d been living a lie. His name, his past, his entire identity belonged to someone else, a total stranger. The investigation draws Kido into two intriguing mysteries: finding out who Rié's husband really was and discovering more about the man he pretended to be. Soon, with each new revelation, Kido will come to share the obsession with - and the lure of - erasing one life to create a new one.
In A Man, winner of Japan’s prestigious Yomiuri Prize for Literature, Keiichiro Hirano explores the search for identity, the ambiguity of memory, the legacies with which we live and die, and the reconciliation of who you hoped to be with who you’ve actually become.
©2018 Keiichiro Hirano. Translation © 2020 by Eli K. P. William. (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Having read great literature (Tolstoy, Buzzati), I can say that this novel has the same qualities: realism, emotional power, psychological depth, and philosophical insight. The story revolves around the investigation of a recently deceased man who had been hiding his true identity. Though this mystery person makes almost no personal appearances in the novel, it is a testament to the authors ability that by the end of it, we get a clear and vivid sense of who he was, and what motivated his strange actions. Hirano demonstrates strong insight into people, and accurate understanding of topics like law, society, genetics, etc.
The narrator, Brian Nishii, does a terrific job. He meets all the criteria of what makes a great audiobook narrator: being able to capture the emotion in the text, to voice the opposite gender, to give each major character a distinct personality. Furthermore his pronunciation of Japanese words is spot on.
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