This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Translation copyright © 2010 by Shuichi Yoshida
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Japan as Akunin by Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc., Tokyo, in 2007. Copyright © 2007 by Shuichi Yoshida.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Yoshida, Shuichi, [date]
[Akunin. English]
Villain / Shuichi Yoshida ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-37929-0
I. Gabriel, Philip, [date] II. Title.
PL865.O658A3813 2010
895.6′36—dc22 2010000159
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