| International Standard Book Number |
9781419777073 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1419777076 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Isaka, Kotaro, 1971- author.
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| Uniform Title |
Shiso monsuta (Compilation). English
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| Title Statement |
Seesaw monster ; Spin monster / Kotaro Isaka ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Malissa.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : The Overlook Press, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
147, 181 pages ; 24 cm.
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| General Note |
A preview for "Hotel Lucky Seven: a novel" is included after Spin Monster ; "Hotel Lucky Seven" translated from the Japanese by Brian Bergstrom.
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| General Note |
Originally published by Chuokoron-Shinsha in Japan as Seesaw Monster in 2019.
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| General Note |
Upside-down book: two works bound back to back and inverted. Each side has a separate title page.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Seesaw monster -- Spin Monster.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"A gripping novel mixing mythology, family drama, espionage, and high technology from the international bestselling author of Bullet Train, already in development for a major film starring Anne Hathaway and Salma Hayek In Seesaw Monster, international bestselling author Kotaro Isaka employs his hallmarks of kinetic pacing, high-stakes action, and great characters to explore the nature of conflict, the power of close relationships, and the idea of progress. Poor Naoto. A pharmaceutical salesman in Japan in the booming 1980s, his job has him working long hours, answering to his demanding boss and entertaining entitled customers. And at home, his wife, Miyako, and his mother are always feuding, making each other miserable. Why can't the two just get along? Then one day a mysterious visitor shows up at their door with a possible answer. Their conflict is larger-and far more ancient-than it might appear. When Naoto uncovers something wrong at work and his life is suddenly in danger, can the two women set aside their differences to save him? Decades later, in our near-future, surveillance, facial-recognition software, and AI dominate Japan. The most sensitive information lives only on paper, and Mito makes his living delivering it. When a chance meeting with a stranger on a train draws Mito into a possible conspiracy, he finds himself face-to-face with his own enemy, a tragic double whose life has been intertwined with his own. Is this another instance of the ancient feud? And what role will Miyako, now in her nineties, play in this deadly game?"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Language note |
Translated from the Japanese.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Mothers-in-law Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Artificial intelligence Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Interpersonal relations Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Married people Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Conspiracies Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Vendetta Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Pharmaceutical industry Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Japan Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Suspense fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Fiction)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Upside-down books.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Bergstrom, Brian, translator.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Malissa, Sam, translator.
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