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On Parole Hardback - 2000
by Akira Yoshimura; Stephen Snyder (Translator)
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A man murders his wife, wounds her lover, and sets the lover's home-with the lover's mother in it-on fire. Sixteen years later, 50-year-old Shiro Kikutani, a former high-school teacher serving a life sentence for this crime, is released. In jail, he had thought of nothing but freedom. His release, however, creates a series of obstacles for which he is not prepared. While he continually examines his conscience, he feels no remorse. On parole, he slowly begins to lead a normal life, and that life seems livable, until his new wife pressures him to express remorse he does not feel. Once again, Yoshimura has written a finely detailed, subtle, powerful story that explores the fragile life of a murderer and the quality of freedom in an unforgiving society.
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The air on his skin was unfamiliar and left him strangely agitated.
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- Title On Parole
- Author Akira Yoshimura; Stephen Snyder (Translator)
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
- Publication date February 15, 2000
- ISBN 9780151002702 / 0151002703
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 8.31 x 5.68 x 1.04 in (21.11 x 14.43 x 2.64 cm)
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99025991
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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