02462cam a2200397 i 4500 1343982312 TxAuBib 20240627120000.0 231204s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023055100 9781641294911 HRD 27.95 1641294914 HRD 27.95 (OCoLC)1402200600 TxAuBib rda eng jpn Ōtani, Akira, 1981-, author. Babayaga no yoru English. The night of Baba Yaga / Akira Otani ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett. New York, NY : Soho Crime, 2024. 206 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Tokyo, 1979. Yoriko Shindo, a workhorse of a woman who has been an outcast her whole life, is kidnapped and dragged to the lair of the Naiki-kai, a branch of the yakuza. After she savagely fends off a throng of henchmen in an attempt to escape, Shindo is only permitted to live under one condition: that she will become the bodyguard and driver for Shoko Naiki, the obsessively sheltered daughter of the gang's boss. Eighteen-year-old Shoko, pretty and silent as a doll, has no friends, wears strangely old-fashioned clothes, and is completely naive in all matters of life. Originally disdaining her ward, Shindo soon finds herself far more invested in Shoko's well-being than she ever expected. But every man around them is bloodthirsty and trigger-happy. Shindo doubts she and Shoko will survive much longer if nothing changes. Could there ever be a different life for two women like them? Akira Otani's English-language debut moves boldly through time and across gender, stretching the definitions and possibilities of each concept. Rendered in a gorgeous translation by International Booker-shortlisted Sam Bett, this lean, mean thriller proves that bonds forged in fire are unbreakable"-- Provided by publisher. 20240704. jz. Yakuza Fiction. Woman-woman relationships Fiction. Bodyguards Fiction. Female friendship Fiction. Racially mixed people Fiction. Japan Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Novels. Bett, Sam, translator.