Seesaw Monster by Kotaro Isaka - ISBN: 9781787304734
Paperback
Deadly secrets and conspiracies collide in two thrilling linked stories.

Seesaw Monster

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    8 July 2025

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Summary

Two inventive tales of espionage in one, from the internationally bestselling author of Japanese fiction sensation Bullet Train.

“Fascinating and thought provoking with some genuine surprises and incredibly clever ideas that kept me thinking about it long after I finished it… a Japanese Black Mirror!” - Ajay Chowdhury, author of The Waiter

Some mother-in-laws are hard. This one might be murder.

Miyako suspects her mother-in-law is a murderer. It’s not just a case of th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781787304734
ISBN-10:1787304736
Author:Kotaro Isaka, Sam Malissa
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Harvill Secker
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:8 July 2025
Weight:429g
Dimensions:234mm x 156mm x 27mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Fascinating and thought provoking with some genuine surprises and incredibly clever ideas that kept me thinking about it long after I finished it… a Japanese Black Mirror! – Ajay Chowdhury, author of THE WAITER
Isaka’s exceptional latest combines the author’s flair for violent comic farce with an unsettling look at the near future. Isaka’s talent for kinetic, hilarious carnage is on full display, and it’s fortified with philosophical depth and surprisingly potent ruminations on the nature of fate. This ranks among the author’s best * Publishers Weekly *
Thoroughly enjoyable * Guardian, on BULLET TRAIN *
Unlike anything you’re likely to have read before…white-hot with double-crosses * Financial Times, on BULLET TRAIN *
Entertaining…high-speed…with lots of twists and turns…it has a Tarantino-meets-the-Coen-Brothers feel to it * The Times, on BULLET TRAIN *
An offbeat but touching thriller, with a wonderful final twist * Mail on Sunday, on THE MANTIS *

About The Author

Kotaro Isaka

Kotaro Isaka (Author)

Kotaro Isaka is a bestselling and multi-award-winning writer who is published around the world. He has won the Shincho Mystery Club Award, Mystery Writers of Japan Award, Japan Booksellers’ Award and the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize and fourteen of his books have been adapted for film or TV. He is the author of the international bestseller Bullet Train, which was made into a major film starring Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock.

Sam Malissa (Translator)

Sam Malissa holds a PhD in Japanese Literature from Yale University. He has translated fiction by Toshiki Okada, Shun Medoruma, and Hideo Furukawa, among others.

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