Book Fair: Former Prof on Miyabe

And now, we turn the mike over to Former Prof, for the first-so-far bankruptcy posting at the Underbelly summer Book Fair.

All She Was Worth (1999) by Miyuki Miyabe. This is a Japanese crime novel by an award-winner author. But it has a surprisingly accessible view of Japanese consumerism, Japanese privacy law and, of course my big interest, Japanese consumer bankruptcy law (which actually plays a central role in the plot). It works as escapist fiction, and as a slice of Japanese life.

Comment: new to me, and much thanks--I'm going to Japan for the first time later in the fall, and I'm trying to do a bit of advanced reading. The catalog of all Book Fair posts is here.