{"product_id":"devils-in-daylight-9780811228756","title":"Devils in Daylight","description":"One morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phone call from his old friend Sonomura: barely able to contain his excitement, Sonomura claims that he has cracked a secret cryptographic code based on Edgar Allan Poe's \u003cem\u003eThe Gold-Bug\u003c\/em\u003e and now knows exactly when and where a murder will take place--and they must hurry if they want to witness the murder, because it's later that very night! Sonomura has a history of lunacy and playing the amateur detective, so Takahashi is of course reluctant to believe him. Nevertheless, they stake out the secret location, and through tiny peepholes in the knotted wood, become voyeurs at the scene of a shocking crime...\u003cbr\u003e Atmospheric, erotic, and tense, \u003cem\u003eDevils in Daylight\u003c\/em\u003e is an early work by the master storyteller who \"created a lifelong series of ingenious variations on a dominant theme: the power of love to energize and destroy\" (\u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTanizaki, Junichiro:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Author of \u003cem\u003eThe Makioka Sisters\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIn Praise of Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eA Cat, a Man, and Two Women\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eJunichiro Tanizaki\u003c\/strong\u003e (1886-1965) is arguably the greatest Japanese writer of the twentieth century.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVincent, J. Keith:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJ. Keith Vincent\u003c\/strong\u003e is professor of Japanese and comparative literature at Boston University, and his translation of Okamoto Kanoko's \u003cem\u003eA Riot of Goldfish\u003c\/em\u003e won the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50647505338642,"sku":"9780811228756","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_313e787c-62af-48d3-8fb3-03cd9892c8ae.jpg?v=1734801181","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/devils-in-daylight-9780811228756","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}