Ashes

Author/Contributor(s):	Kitakata, Kenzo; Shimokawa, Emi
Publisher:	Vertical
Date:	6/1/2003
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

The vice and virtues of middle age are espied with an eagle eye in this hardboiled story about a mid-career gangster. Unfolding through chiseled sketches and run through with tantalizing motifs, Kitakata's masterpiece follows the fortunes of a yakuza mobster as his moment of truth approaches. Cool, real, and cleansing, Ashes is a literary tonic.