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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.; Unabridged edition (October 21, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1483031187
  • ISBN-13: 978-1483031187
  • Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 5.2 x 5.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 starsLast Winter We Parted
By S Riaz TOP 500 REVIEWER on October 21, 2014
Format: Kindle Edition
A writer visits a convicted murderer, photographer Yudai Kiharazaka, in prison. He is awaiting execution for burning two women to death and photographing them as they were on fire. Now, the author wants to write a book about him and his crimes and begins to investigate what happened. During his investigation, the writer is constantly warned off. He discovers that the photographer and his sister Akari were raised in an institution, the children of neglectful parents; one of which abandoned them. When he finally meets Akari, he finds she is a promiscuous woman, who seems to bring tragedy to her lovers.

We follow the story through interviews, meetings, letters and even through twitter, as the story jumps from character to character. There is the first victim, Akiko, , the photographer and his sister, Yudai’s friend Katari and the rather creepy ‘doll creator’. This is a dark and disturbing crime novel, dealing with obsession, stalking and fantasies. As the story unfolds we wonder whether Yudai’s confessions are actually true, for nothing in this book is straight forward.

Although I enjoyed this book, I felt slightly distanced from the characters. That may have simply been the style of the writing, or it could have been due to the translation. However, it was certainly an intriguing read. Lastly, I received a copy of this book from the publishers, via NetGalley, for review.
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5.0 out of 5 starsdark and thought-provoking murder mystery about the measurable price of human life
By Patricia Loftfjeld on October 21, 2014
Format: Hardcover
So short! So wonderful! Definitely a one-sitting book, and a very dark one at that. The book starts off on what feels like familiar ground--a writer is investigating a convicted killer, but begins to think the killer is innocent--but any sense of familiarity is blown away as the plot unfolds into one of the strangest and most thought-provoking books I've read in a while. It asks questions about the value of art (is perfection worth a human life?), about imitation (can a picture of a person be better than the person themselves?), and about more traditional crime fiction topics like the price of obsession and the value of revenge.
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4.0 out of 5 starsAn insidious novel with several flaws
By AJ. on October 21, 2014
Format: Kindle Edition
I received a copy of this book as an ARC through NetGalley.

Last Winter We Parted is a Japanese rendition of In Cold Blood -- except, of course, that it's fiction. A young reporter is asked by his editor to write a book about a man who stands accused of having burned two women to death. The first murder had been thought an accident, but once the second one occurred, the accused -- a photographer by the name of Kiharazaka -- was tried and sentenced to death. As the writer delves deeper into the story, it starts to seem like nothing is really as it seems. The novel is twisting and confusing in all the right ways, right up until the very end, when everything becomes clear.

This was a book that I felt strangely about while reading, because I didn't feel I was actually enjoying it until after I'd finished it and sat down to write my review. There were two things that bothered me that made me unable to give it a higher rating, though. The first is Kiharazaka's sister, who is flat and two-dimensional; while Kiharazaka himself bothered me at first, I grew to pity the man over the course of the book, and he became more "real" to me -- she, however, never did. The second is the sex in the book; it rings false -- a middle-aged man's vision of sex, borne of watching too much porn. The book is twisted and dark enough without it, and the trysts take away instead of adding to the atmosphere.

With that being said, I still recommend the novel to anyone who enjoys Japanese literature and mysteries. I really enjoyed the twist, and Nakamura sets up a cast of creepy, abnormal characters in such a way that the reader slowly pieces together the events of the past until the big reveal.

Started: July 9, 2014
Finished: August 6, 2014

Rating: 8/10
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5.0 out of 5 starsA novel of philosophy, psychology, and crime
By TChris TOP 500 REVIEWER on October 21, 2014
Format: Hardcover
The crime novels of Fuminori Nakamura explore the psychology of the criminal mind while making the point that the criminal mind is difficult to distinguish from the noncriminal mind. Guilt is often a fluid and ambiguous concept, easily shared and spread, not always understood by those who refuse to look beyond the superficial.

Yudai Kiharazaka, a photographer, has been sentenced to death for the murders of two women who were incinerated in separate fires. The narrator of Last Winter We Parted has been commissioned to write a book about the murderer. Some people the narrator interviews speculate that Kiharazaka burned the women so that he could photograph them in flames, thus replaying a version of the climactic scene in a classic Japanese short story called "Hell Screen."

The narrator begins his project after becoming fixated on a photograph Kiharazaka took of black butterflies obscuring a figure that might be a woman. He is also drawn to Kiharazaka's obsession with lifelike silicon dolls that are patterned on real women, an obsession shared by a group known as K2.

Some chapters of Last Winter We Parted consist of Kiharazaka's letters to the narrator and to his sister. Some chapters relate the narrator's interviews with people who knew Kihirazaka, each adding insight to his life while prompting the reader to question what really happened. Some chapters follow the narrator's introspective life as he decides what to do about Yukie, his girlfriend. The narrator becomes uncomfortably involved with both Kiharazaka and his sister while coming to understand their true nature ... and his own.

Last Winter We Parted is a short but complex novel. The truth about the two deaths is surprising and complicity is found in unexpected places.Read more ›
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