On Parole by Akira Yoshimura, translated by Stephen Snyder [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
A master of disturbing, psychologically complex stories, Yoshimura’s On Parole chronicles the release of a man from a life sentence for having murdered his wife, wounding her lover, and inadvertently killing the lover’s mother.
Also available in English translation is Yoshimura’s gripping One Man’s Justice (2001).
Review: “Works in Translation,” aMagazine: Inside Asian America, October/November 2001
Readers: Adult
Published: 2000 (United States)
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