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Also by Mariko Koike
The Cat in the Coffin
A Cappella
Also Translated by Deborah Boliver Boehm
The Cat in the Coffin, by Mariko Koike
The Changeling, by Kenzaburo Oe
Death by Water, by Kenzaburo Oe
The Tattoo Murder Case, by Akimitsu Takagi
About the Author and Translator
Mariko Koike was born in Tokyo and is the recipient of a number of literary awards, including the Naoki Prize, the Shibata Renzaburo Award, and most recently the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature. You can sign up for email updates here.
Deborah Boliver Boehm is also the translator of Koike’s 2009 release, The Cat in the Coffin, and of Kenzaburo Oe’s The Changeling.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Epilogue
Also by Mariko Koike
About the Author and Translator
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS.
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THE GRAVEYARD APARTMENT. Copyright © 1993 by Mariko Koike. Translation copyright © 2016 by Deborah Boliver Boehm. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover design by Young Jin Lim
Cover photographs: building © Eduardo Ripoll/Arcangel Images; sky, graveyard, and trees © Shutterstock
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Koike, Mariko, 1952– author. | Boehm, Deborah Boliver, translator.
Title: The graveyard apartment: a novel / Mariko Koike; translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm.
Other titles: Bochi o miorosu ie. English
Description: First U.S. edition. | New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2016. | “First published in Japan under the title Bochi o miorosu ie by Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.” (Tokyo, 1993)—Verso title page.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016007862 | ISBN 9781250060549 (hardback) | ISBN 9781466865822 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Young families—Fiction. | Apartment houses—Fiction. | Basements—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Horror. | GSAFD: Horror tales. | Suspense fiction.
Classification: LCC PL855.O3525 B6313 2016 | DDC 895.63/5—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016007862
e-ISBN 9781466865822
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First published in Japan under the title Bochi o miorosu ie by Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.
First U.S. Edition: October 2016