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Wisecracking reporter and reluctant detective
Billy Chaka is back. His latest misadventure finds him in
Osaka to accept an award for an article he'd written years
before about a teenage Bunraku puppet prodigy named Tetsuo.
Billy quickly learns he may have been summoned for more than
the award -- Tetsuo has been expelled from Osaka's most prestigious
theater company following a bloody, unexplained incident
involving a fellow puppeteer.
While Billy tries to unravel that mystery, an American man
in the hotel room next door is found brutally murdered. Investigating
the homicide and its bizarre link to the young puppeteer
plunges Billy into a shadowy world where dreams and reality
violently intermingle and people are never who they seem.
It's a world not far removed from that of the Bunraku theater
that flourished in Osaka hundreds of years ago, stylishly
recast for the neon-lit urban stage with decrepit gangsters,
clueless expatriates, dangerous women, and one seriously
deranged hotel employee. Two parts noir and one part playful
irreverence, Kinki Lullaby is a sly whodunit that unfolds
with the twisted charm of a fever dream.
Isaac Adamson was born in Fort Collins,
CO, during the Year of the Pig. He plays soccer well, guitar
poorly, and is currenly living in Chicago.
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