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  ALSO BY HIDEO YOKOYAMA

  Six Four

  Seventeen

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Born in 1957, Hideo Yokoyama worked for twelve years as an investigative reporter with a regional newspaper north of Tokyo before becoming one of Japan’s most acclaimed and bestselling fiction writers. He is the author of the novels Six Four and Seventeen. You can sign up for email updates here.

  A NOTE ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

  Jonathan Lloyd-Davies studied Japanese at Durham University and Chinese at Oxford. His translations include Six Four, by Hideo Yokoyama; Edge, by Koji Suzuki (with cotranslator Camellia Nieh); the Psyche Diver trilogy, by Baku Yumemakura; Gray Men, by Tomotake Ishikawa; and Nan-Core, by Mahokaru Numata. His translation of Edge received the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel. Originally from Wales, he now resides in Tokyo. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  TITLE PAGE

  COPYRIGHT NOTICE

  SEASON OF SHADOWS

  CHAPTER 1

  CHAPTER 2

  CHAPTER 3

  CHAPTER 4

  CHAPTER 5

  CHAPTER 6

  CHAPTER 7

  CHAPTER 8

  CHAPTER 9

  CHAPTER 10

  CHAPTER 11

  CRY OF THE EARTH

  CHAPTER 1

  CHAPTER 2

  CHAPTER 3

  CHAPTER 4

  CHAPTER 5

  CHAPTER 6

  CHAPTER 7

  CHAPTER 8

  CHAPTER 9

  CHAPTER 10

  CHAPTER 11

  CHAPTER 12

  CHAPTER 13

  BLACK LINES

  CHAPTER 1

  CHAPTER 2

  CHAPTER 3

  CHAPTER 4

  CHAPTER 5

  CHAPTER 6

  CHAPTER 7

  CHAPTER 8

  CHAPTER 9

  CHAPTER 10

  BRIEFCASE

  CHAPTER 1

  CHAPTER 2

  CHAPTER 3

  CHAPTER 4

  CHAPTER 5

  CHAPTER 6

  CHAPTER 7

  CHAPTER 8

  CHAPTER 9

  CHAPTER 10

  ALSO BY HIDEO YOKOYAMA

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR

  COPYRIGHT

  MCD × FSG Originals

  Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  120 Broadway, New York 10271

  Copyright © 1998 by Hideo Yokoyama

  English translation copyright © 2019 by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies

  All rights reserved

  Originally published in Japanese in 1998 by Bungeishunju Ltd., Tokyo, as Kage no Kisetsu (Season of Shadows)

  English translation originally published in 2019 by Riverrun, an imprint of Quercus Editions Ltd., Great Britain

  English translation published in the United States by MCD × FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  First American edition, 2020

  E-book ISBN: 978-0-374-72185-5

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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, and events 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.