ALSO BY HIDEO YOKOYAMA
Six Four
Seventeen
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in 1957, Hideo Yokoyama worked for twelve years as an investigative reporter with a regional newspaper north of Tokyo before becoming one of Japan’s most acclaimed and bestselling fiction writers. He is the author of the novels Six Four and Seventeen. You can sign up for email updates here.
A NOTE ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Jonathan Lloyd-Davies studied Japanese at Durham University and Chinese at Oxford. His translations include Six Four, by Hideo Yokoyama; Edge, by Koji Suzuki (with cotranslator Camellia Nieh); the Psyche Diver trilogy, by Baku Yumemakura; Gray Men, by Tomotake Ishikawa; and Nan-Core, by Mahokaru Numata. His translation of Edge received the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel. Originally from Wales, he now resides in Tokyo. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
SEASON OF SHADOWS
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CRY OF THE EARTH
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
BRIEFCASE
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
ALSO BY HIDEO YOKOYAMA
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR
COPYRIGHT
MCD × FSG Originals
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Copyright © 1998 by Hideo Yokoyama
English translation copyright © 2019 by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies
All rights reserved
Originally published in Japanese in 1998 by Bungeishunju Ltd., Tokyo, as Kage no Kisetsu (Season of Shadows)
English translation originally published in 2019 by Riverrun, an imprint of Quercus Editions Ltd., Great Britain
English translation published in the United States by MCD × FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition, 2020
E-book ISBN: 978-0-374-72185-5
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, and events either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.