"The Thief brings to mind Highsmith, Mishima and Doestoevsky... A chilling philosophical thriller leaving readers in doubt without making them feel in any way cheated."
—The Wall Street Journal, BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR selection
“Nakamura's prose is cut-to-the-bone lean, but it moves across the page with a seductive, even voluptuous agility. I defy you not to finish the book in a single sitting.” —Richmond Times Dispatch
"His grasp of the seamy underbelly of the city is why Nakamura is one of the most award-winning young guns of Japanese hardboiled detective writing."
—Daily Beast
About the Author
Fuminori Nakamura was born in 1977 and graduated from Fukushima University in 2000. In 2002, he won the prestigious Noma Literary Prize for New Writers for his first novel, A Gun, and in 2005 he won the Akutagawa prize for The Boy in the Earth. The Thief, winner of the 2010 Oe Prize, Japan’s most important literary award, is his first novel to be published in English.