Shūichi Yoshida is een meester in proza, wiens werken diep doordringen in de menselijke psyche en complexe relaties verkennen. Zijn stijl staat bekend om zijn scherpte en zijn vermogen om onuitgesproken emotionele nuances te vangen. Yoshida richt zich op thema's als eenzaamheid, identiteit en de zoektocht naar betekenis in de hedendaagse wereld, waarbij zijn verhalen vaak de verborgen motivaties van personages onthullen. Zijn unieke talent om spannende en toch diep menselijke verhalen te creëren, maakt hem tot een van de belangrijkste hedendaagse Japanse auteurs.
A young woman is brutally murdered on a remote mountain road. A young construction worker, Yuichi, is on the run - but is he guilty? This is the dark heart of Japan; a world of seedy sex hotels and decaying seaside towns; a world of loneliness, violence and desperation. As the police close in on Yuichi and his new lover, the stories of the victim, the murderer and their families are uncovered. But these men and women are never what they appear to be...
Four twenty-somethings share an apartment in Tokyo. In Parade each tells their story: their lives, their hopes and fears, their loves, their secrets. Kotomi waits by the phone for a boyfriend who never calls. Ryosuke wants someone that he can't have. Mirai spends her days drawing and her nights hanging out in gay bars. Naoki works for a film company, and everyone treats him like an elder brother. Then Satoru turns up. He's eighteen, homeless, and does night work of a very particular type. In the next-door apartment something disturbing is going on. And outside, in the streets around their apartment block, there is violence in the air. From the writer of the cult classic Villain, Parade is a tense, disturbing, thrilling tale of life in the city.