Fuminori Nakamura

Jun 7, 2023 | mysteriesahoy.com | Fuminori Nakamura

Originally published in 2018 as その先の道に消えるEnglish translation first published in 2023. Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body—rapidly becoming two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan’s underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears a complex cultural history of spirituality, torture, cleansing, and sacrifice.

May 2, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Fuminori Nakamura |Sam Bett |Anne Hillerman |John Sandford

by Fuminori Nakamura ; translated by Sam Bett ‧ A deep, deeply disturbing dive into Japan’s bondage subculture. Before he was beaten to death with an elegant sculpture, Kazunari Yoshikawa was noted as a master of kinbaku—rope artistry, as distinct from rope torture. He made the women he bound at a club and privately feel achingly desired and desirous.