Four twenty-somethings share an apartment in Tokyo. InParadeeach tells their story: their lives, their hopes and fears, their loves, their secrets.

Kotomi waits by the phone for a boyfriend who never calls. Ryosuke wants someone that he cant have. Mirai spends her days drawing and her nights hanging out in gay bars. Naoki works for a film company, and everyone treats him like an elder brother. Then Satoru turns up. Hes eighteen, homeless, and does night work of a very particular type.

In the next-door apartment something disturbing is going on. And outside, in the streets around their apartment block, there is violence in the air. From the writer of the cult classicVillain,Paradeis a tense, disturbing, thrilling tale of life in the city.

Shuichi Yoshidawas born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1968. He is the author of numerous books and has won many Japanese literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize forPark Life, and the prestigious Osaragi Jiro Prize and the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award, both of which he received forVillain. Several of his stories have been adapted for Japanese television and the film ofVillainwas released in 2010. Yoshida lives in Tokyo.

This is Tokyo as you have never seen it before. A masterpiece of tension from the author of the cult classic Villain

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