Inspector Imanishi Investigates, Seicho Matsumoto literary fiction his poems read like narratives

his poems read like narratives that have been pared down to their essence

• Get comfortable in the discomfort

From a little-known fishing community at the periphery of China

the painful dissolution of their marriage

The room grew darker

Inspector Imanishi Investigates, Seicho Matsumoto literary fiction his poems read like narrativesIn the wee hours of a 1960s Tokyo morning, a dead body is found under the rails of a train, and the victim's face is so badly damaged that police have a hard time figuring out the victims identity. Only two clues surface: an old man, overheard talking in a distinctive accent to a young man, and the word kameda. Inspector Imanishi leaves his beloved bonsai and his haiku and goes off to investigateand runs up against a blank wall. Months pass in