The Rope ArtistAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Tuesday 2 May 2023
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Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body-rapidly becoming two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japans underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears a complex cultural history of spirituality, torture, cleansing, and sacrifice. As Togashi, a junior member of the police force, investigates the murder of a kinbaku instructor, he finds himself unable to resist his own private transgressive desires. In contrast, Togashis colleague Hayama is morally upright to a fault, with a stalwart commitment to the truth. A Sherlock Holmesian detective with nearly superhuman powers of deduction, Hayama notices a dangerous measure of darkness within Togashi and embarks on his own parallel investigation, which soon spirals out of control. Unflinching in its flayed-raw treatment of identity, violence, sexuality, power, the occult, and the divine, Fuminori Nakamura s explosive, complex new mystery is both viscerally painful and unexpectedly hopeful-plus, int
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