Sayonara, Sweet Amaryllis
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
In the elegant, ceremonious world of contemporary Japan, where tradition and modernity exist in uneasy tension, Superintendent Tetsuo Otani of the Hyogo Prefectural Police finds himself entangled in a murder mystery as intricate as a haiku. Sayonara, Sweet Amaryllis chronicles Otani's investigation into a case that draws him deep into the refined circles of the Japanese tea ceremony, where a distinguished practitioner is found dead and nothing — not even the most graceful of surfaces — can be trusted. James Melville, the pen name of British diplomat Roy Peter Martin, brings an insider's authority to his portrait of Japanese society, weaving procedural precision with an anthropologist's eye for cultural nuance. His prose is measured and atmospheric, mirroring the restrained elegance of the world it inhabits, while Otani himself stands as one of crime fiction's most quietly compelling detectives — a man of deep humanity navigating a society bound by honour and silence. Readers who think they understand Japan will find their certainties gently, irrevocably undone.
Author: James Melville
Format: Hardback
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
In the elegant, ceremonious world of contemporary Japan, where tradition and modernity exist in uneasy tension, Superintendent Tetsuo Otani of the Hyogo Prefectural Police finds himself entangled in a murder mystery as intricate as a haiku. Sayonara, Sweet Amaryllis chronicles Otani's investigation into a case that draws him deep into the refined circles of the Japanese tea ceremony, where a distinguished practitioner is found dead and nothing — not even the most graceful of surfaces — can be trusted. James Melville, the pen name of British diplomat Roy Peter Martin, brings an insider's authority to his portrait of Japanese society, weaving procedural precision with an anthropologist's eye for cultural nuance. His prose is measured and atmospheric, mirroring the restrained elegance of the world it inhabits, while Otani himself stands as one of crime fiction's most quietly compelling detectives — a man of deep humanity navigating a society bound by honour and silence. Readers who think they understand Japan will find their certainties gently, irrevocably undone.