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Dec 13, 2021 · I spoke with two of Higashino’s English-language translators, Giles Murray and Alexander O. Smith, about how the world in Higashino’s crime novels reflect the real Tokyo—how it feels, how it operates, and how it’s changing.
Nov 24, 2014 · Higashino does not follow the normal conventions of the genre. In his cult sensation novel, The Devotion of Suspect X — one of the best crime novels I’ve ever read — the reader knows who committed the crime from the outset, but not how it was carried out.
Keigo Higashino is a Japanese novelist and although I think he is pretty big in Japan, he's yet to find widespread acclaim elsewhere. According to Goodreads, only 7-8 of his works have been translated to English and the above claim is based on those few novels.
Feb 24, 2016 · Perhaps the strange brew of tones, influences and settings explains why Higashino is drawn to outsiders, marginal places and pivotal times. Like Journey Under the Midnight Sun, A Midsummer’s ...
Higashino is the best. I was gripped by the devotion of suspect X quite a few years ago, and I finished all of his translated work in the next few months. All of them are great if not as outstanding as malice and DoSX, worth reading.
Dec 13, 2018 · If you want to know why Japan’s Keigo Higashino is the most popular novelist in Asia – and quite possibly the world – you could do worse than read this new English edition of Newcomer.
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Oct 8, 2021 · In Silent Parade (Minotaur, Dec.), bestselling Japanese author Higashino—who is so reclusive he wouldn’t provide PW with a photograph of himself to accompany this interview—crafts another ...
