Fiction
Seventeen: A Novel
Hideo Yokoyama's 2017 thriller is set in 1985 at the North Kanto Times, where reporter Kazumasa Yuuki juggles newsroom politics while covering an air disaster of unprecedented scale. The novel then jumps to 2003, as Yuuki reckons with the promise he made in the adrenaline-soaked week that followed. It is less a whodunit than a study of institutional pressure, deadline guilt, and the stories reporters tell themselves to keep working.Picador's edition, translated by Louise Heal Kawai, presents the novel in a compact paperback format. The prose is procedural and restrained, finding tension in editorial meetings rather than chase scenes. For readers who prefer their journalism novels exhausted, ethical, and short on heroes.
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