Seventeen

"A meditative and multilayered narrative that is as much about a man at a mid-life crossroads as it is about journalism or a plane crash." —Los Angeles Review of Books

1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet of the power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom. But when an air disaster of unprecedented scale occurs on the paper's doorstep, its staff is united by an unimaginable horror and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop.

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