![]() ![]() The money stashed in his apartment - his savings - look suspicious, and his alibi for the night in question - an evening spent with Makiko Endo, who he had been seeing for a few months - looks shaky when the police first look into it. ![]() The police eventually connect with Koji - and he soon finds himself under arrest. When he sees in the newspaper that there was a robbery at the bar Numata works at he wonders whether his former classmate was somehow involved. Koji kicks Numata out the next morning - and then at work finds that some police detectives have been looking for him. While Koji is on his second job, Numata is already on his third - working at a bar. The novel opens with a former classmate from Nagano, Numata, who had come to Tokyo at the same time, less than three years earlier, appearing uninvited one night and crashing at his place. Still just barely over twenty, he has a job delivering household appliances, and he puts aside a little bit of money every month, dreaming of someday being able to buy a boat he already has ¥310,000 saved up. The protagonist of City of Refuge is Koji Mizui, who left his native Nagano for Tokyo after graduating from high school. General information | our review | links | about the authorī+ : a lot of it feels a bit off, but still quite compelling ![]() Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]()
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