"White Bird and Bat" Author: [Japan] Higashino Keigo Translator: Li Yingchun Publisher: Nanhai Publishing Company Popular fiction books of the week

★“This time, the sun in my sky will be extinguished by my own hands.”

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★ Finally, the king returns! Keigo Higashino's new work celebrates his 35th anniversary and reaches a new peak in 10 years!

——After "Malice" (1996), "White Night Walk" (1999), "The Devotion of Suspect X" (2005) and "The Little Namiya General Store" (2012), this is the best Keigo Higashino in the past ten years!

—— 4 years of dedicated creation and polishing, visiting many places to collect materials, opening a new chapter in the creative career!

—— Keigo Higashino: "My future goal is to surpass this work."

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★ Well-received! Topped 8 best-selling lists in Japan and swept 3 best-selling book lists as soon as it was released

——Ranked among the Weekly Bunshun Mystery List, this mystery novel is amazing, and Da Vinci Magazine’s annual recommendation!

——Ranked No. 1 on the authoritative sales charts of Tohan, Nichihan, Oricon, Kinokuniya, etc.!

——Topped the Japanese Douban Bookmeter homepage for more than 12 months!

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★ In the face of fate, all choices are in vain! After "White Night" and "Malice", cold-blooded tenderness reappears and explores the darkness of human heart again

——Layer after layer of reversals, breaking all previous suspense routines: the daughter of the deceased teamed up with the murderer's son to challenge a cross-century ghost case

——Directly hit and refresh your "three views": good and evil, right and wrong, crime and punishment, logic and sensibility...all seemingly contradictory and incompatible things are constantly turning in front of the huge gear of fate!

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★ Simplified Chinese version, exclusive and launched! Limited edition of exclusive gifts for the 35th anniversary

——Translator of “The Convenience Store of Sorrow” provided support, and the designer of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “To Live” took charge of the design

——Hardcover double cover, the text is made of high-quality offset paper, which is more comfortable to read

——Gifts with the book

【Higashino Signed Message Card】Limited Edition

[On-site Detective Map] Authorized design by the editorial department of Japan Fantasy Winter House, including thousands of words of creative stories & on-site photography, taking you to visit the prototype of the novel

[Lunar Eclipse Bookmark] Dark Night Black + Lunar Eclipse Silver, full of reading ritual

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■ Story Summary

"This time, the sun in my sky will be extinguished by my own hands."

Tokyo in 2017 overlaps with Aichi in 1984. The suspect has confessed to the crime he committed many years ago, but his confession leads everyone into a deeper maze.

The murderer's son and the deceased's daughter both have doubts about the police's conclusion, so they secretly join forces to investigate, step by step uncovering the secrets that their fathers have hidden all their lives.

Good and evil, right and wrong, crime and punishment, logic and sensibility...all things that seem to be contradictory and incompatible have their positions reversed in the face of the huge gear of fate, with yin and yang reversed, and finally become one.

“Light and shadow coexist, day and night coexist, just like white birds and bats dancing in the sky.”

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Thirty-three years ago, that knife should have pierced my heart.

I killed someone, and three days later, the police caught another murderer.

I wanted to protect my family, but ended up bringing misfortune to others. It turns out that after escaping the law, pain and fear are my real punishment.

At this point, lies are the truth. The man who threatened me to confess everything must disappear.

I had to take another innocent life.

Everything I said above is a lie.

Keigo Higashino

Japanese writer.

In 1985, "After School" won the 31st Edogawa Ranpo Award and began to write full-time;

In 1999, "White Night Walk" led the annual Weekly Bunshun mystery novel list, and "Secret" won the 52nd Japan Mystery Writers Association Award;

The Devotion of Suspect X, published in 2005, won the 134th Naoki Prize and the 6th Honkaku Mystery Novel Award, and topped the annual three major mystery novel rankings;

In 2008, Meteor Kizuna won the 43rd New Wind Award;

The Newcomer, published in 2009, topped the two major mystery novel rankings of the year;

In 2012, "The Convenience Store of Sorrow" won the 7th Central Public Opinion Literature and Art Award;

In 2014, "When the Prayer Ends" won the 48th Yoshikawa Eiji Literature Award.