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Seventeen / Hideo Yokoyama ; translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai.

by Yokoyama, Hideo, 1957-

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Riverrun, an imprint of Quercus Editions Ltd, 2018.

Aircraft accidents -- Japan -- Fiction.

Reporters and reporting -- Fiction.

Newspapers -- Fiction.

Mountaineering -- Fiction.

Japan -- Fiction.

9781786484611 (trade pbk.)

Kuraimazu hai. Engish

viii, 403 p. ; 24 cm

"First published in the Japanese language as Kuraimazu hai (Climber's High) by Bungeishunju in Tokyo in 2003"--T.p. verso.

In English, translated from the Japanese.

"Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet against the power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom. But when an air disaster of unprecedented scale occurs on the paper's doorstep, its staff are united by an unimaginable horror, and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop. 2003. Seventeen years later, Yuuki remembers the adrenaline-fuelled, emotionally charged seven days that changed his and his colleagues' lives. He does so while making good on a promise he made that fateful week - one that holds the key to its last unsolved mystery, and represents Yuuki's final, unconquered fear."--Publisher's description.

Psychological fiction.

Japanese fiction -- Translations into English.

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