Seicho Matsumoto 
Point Zero [EPUB ebook] 

A triumph by Seicho Matsumoto (1909-1992) , the master of Japanese mystery writing . A beautifully written novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution catering to GIs during the American post-war occupation.

Tokyo 1958, Teiko marries Kenichi Uehara, ten years her senior, an advertising man recommended by an intermediary. After a four-day honeymoon, Kenichi vanishes. Keito travels to the coastal and snow-bound city of Kanazawa, where Kenishi was last seen, to investigate his disappearance. She discovers that he had been a police officer in Tokyo
after the war
, keeping watch over pan pan girls, Japanese prostitutes catering to GIs. Some of these
women
have created a new life in Kanazawa
and may have
take
n
extreme measures to hide their past.

About the author

Louise Heal Kawai comes from Manchester. She has spent the past twenty years in Japan and currently lives in Yokohama. Her translations include Daido Tamaki’s Milk, Tendo Shoko’s best-selling autobiography Yakuza Moon, and for Bitter Lemon, Matsumoto’s A Quiet Place.