The Gun - Fuminori Nakamura, Allison Markin Powell - translator
Language: EnglishKeywords:
Dark
Existential
existentialism
Japan
Japanese
Psychological
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The award-winning debut novel by Japanese noir master Fuminori Nakamura, translated into English for the first time.
From the moment university student Nishikawa spots the gun next to the dead man he’s stumbled across on a nighttime walk, the world around him blurs. The gun - loaded with four bullets - brings an intoxicating sense of excitement to his life. But soon merely possessing the gun is not enough. He must shoot it.
Fuminori Nakamura’s presence in the US has been steadily increasing since Soho’s first publication of The Thief. A young, exciting Japanese author who has won Japan’s prestigious Oe Prize (The Thief), Akutagawa Prize (The Boy in the Earth), and Shincho Literary Prize (A Gun). Nakamura’s books always get great review coverage.
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This post has 2 comments
August 20th, 2020
This looks good! thanks!
January 24th, 2026
Sounds like an… interesting premise. As an American, I see nothing special about firearms. I assume, as a general rule, that everyone has at least one- though of course there are individuals that don’t. But this is such an important thing that it’s written into the very foundation of our nation that the natural right to keep and bear arms shall not be interfered with in any way. Obviously our government does not in all respects obey this hard limitation on its power and that act of usurpation is a problem… but even with the occasional violations that right in general is sacrosanct.
Japan, on the other hand, has a long history of perpetually disarmed populations since long before modern times. So what I take for granted as a natural right and matter of basic human dignity… is not a perspective that is universal. Not everyone, if I may so suggest, is as enlightened as we. Indeed, what I take for granted and hold to be so central to being human is not mere taboo but crime in places such as Japan.
The very idea that something so mundane I give it no second thought could be so intoxicating is… well, both disturbing and fascinating. It makes me wonder if the story’s protagonist will consider cleaning it -the next step after shooting it- to hold equal fascination.
Consider the contrast. I could, if I so choose, shoot a wide variety of firearms on a daily basis. Indeed, many times a day every day. But I do not… not because of any issue of noise or externally imposed pathological fear or law, or even the cost of ammunition which is no minor consideration… but simply because I find the subsequent cleaning to be tedious. Compare this to the case of this person, to whom this rather… mundane revolver is this taboo, nearly mythical object that he is apparently irresistibly compelled to fire. It’s almost surreal. It makes me feel like a person throwing away platefuls of food when my neighbors are starving, only I am not permitted to use that excess food to feed them.
I think I’d like to listen to it.
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