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" Each chapter of this enrapturing novel is elegantly brief and charged with barely contained emotion. New York TimesA gripping debut set in modern-day Tokyo and inspired by a true crime, for readers of Everything I Never Told You and The Perfect Nanny , What's Left of Me Is Yours charts a young woman's search for the truth about her mother's life and her murder. In Japan, a covert industry has grown up around the wakaresaseya (literally breaker-upper), a person hired by one spouse to seduce the other in order to gain the advantage in divorce proceedings. When Satō hires Kaitarō , a wakaresaseya agent, to have an affair with his wife, Rina, he assumes it will be an easy case. But Satō has never truly understood Rina or her desires and Kaitarō 's job is to do exactly that until he does it too well. While Rina remains ignorant of the circumstances that brought them together, she and Kaitarō fall in a desperate, singular love, setting in motion a series of violent acts that will forever haunt her daughter's life. Told from alternating points of view and across the breathtaking landscapes of Japan, Stephanie Scott exquisitely renders the affair and its intricate repercussions. As Rina's daughter, Sumiko, fills in the gaps of her mother's story and her own memory, Scott probes the thorny psychological and moral grounds of the actions we take in the name of love, asking where we draw the line between passion and possession."
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Biographisches: "STEPHANIE SCOTT is a Singaporean and British writer who was born and raised in South East Asia. She read English Literature at the Universities of York and Cambridge and holds an M.St in Creative Writing from Oxford University. Scott was awarded a British Association of Japanese Studies Toshiba Studentship for her anthropological work on What's Left of Me Is Yours and has been made a member of the British Japanese Law Association as a result of her research. She also won the A.M. Heath Prize, the Jerwood Arvon Prize for Prose Fiction, and was a runner up for the Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award. What's Left of Me Is Yours is her first novel." Rezension(2): " NEWSWEEK :Scott deftly spins a web through modern day Tokyo in this captivating dual-perspective rendering of a young woman determined to find out the truth behind her mother's murder." Rezension(3): " BOOKLIST :Scott poignantly evokes both a mother trapped by the choices made for her and a daughter learning to deal with her own precarious freedom. She clearly defines the unfortunate effects of the traditional Japanese legal system on women, and with carefully accumulated details describes a Japan both physically and psychologically teetering on the edge of change." Rezension(4): " PUBLISHERS WEEKLY :[An] intense debut. Exhilarating. Byzantine subplots, distinctive characters, and atmospheric settings will leave readers spellbound." Rezension(5): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: February 1, 2020 In Japan, a daughter explores the crime of passion that took her mother's life. Sumiko was just 7 when her mother died and her father moved away,she was raised by her grandfather, who has always maintained that her mother was killed in a car accident. Twenty years later, she answers a phone call meant for him from a prison administrator with information about inmate Kaitarō" Rezension(6): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: February 17, 2020 In Scott’s intense debut, a young woman explores the Japanese legal system and its relationship to the country’s divorce industry. Twenty-seven-year-old Sumiko Sarashima, a newly licensed attorney, seeks to discover the truth behind her mother’s murder in 1994 when Sumiko was seven. Rina Sato’s murderer, Kaitaro Nakamura, who once worked to seduce his clients’ spouses as evidential grounds for divorce, is now serving a 20-year sentence. What’s not clear to Sumiko is why Kaitaro murdered her mother. Scott rolls out the rest of the story adroitly, scrupulously reconstructing Sumiko’s parents’ past through case files and videotapes. Rina’s and Kaitaro’s passionate relationship unfolds in juxtaposed stories covering numerous locations—Tokyo, Sapporo, Shimoda, courtrooms and prison. The novel becomes exhilarating as Sumiko narrows her pursuit for the truth, interspersed with wistful chapters recounting Sumiko’s poignant memories of having two parents before she was adopted by her maternal grandfather. As Sumiko works to resolve the mystery of her mother’s murder, sifting through the facts brings her closer to understanding the blurred line that exists between love and hate. Byzantine subplots, distinctive characters, and atmospheric settings will leave readers spellbound." Rezension(7): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: March 1, 2020 A young photographer falls in love with a detective in Tokyo in the early 1990s in Scott's moody, leisurely paced debut. Rina, unhappily married to Sato and the mother of young daughter Sumiko, falls for Kaitaro. She doesn't know that Kaitoro works in the marriage breakup trade, and was hired by Sato to seduce her, so that Sato can divorce her for adultery. But then Kaitoro falls for Rina as well. And then, just as they are about to move in together, he murders her. Decades later, Sumiko, who has just passed the exam to become a lawyer, goes back to investigate this mystery, and uncovers layer after layer of complexity. Alternating primarily between Rina and Sumiko's points of view, Scott poignantly evokes both a mother trapped by the choices made for her and a daughter learning to deal with her own precarious freedom. She clearly defines the unfortunate effects of the traditional Japanese legal system on women, and with carefully accumulated details describes a Japan both physically and psychologically teetering on the edge of change.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.) "
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