Farewell to the Angel

Author:〔Japanese〕Moriyama Tsuyoshi/Yu Zhi-run/Zhang Mengfei
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: From the 1960s to the 1980s, Japan produced a generation of talented mystery novelists, but only a few could be considered first-class writers. Among them, only Mori Yamamura Tsuyoshi stood shoulder to shoulder with the master, Matsuo Kiyosaburo. Emerging in the 1960s, Mori Yamamura Tsuyoshi not only inherited and developed the characteristics of Matsuo Kiyosaburo's social school mystery novels but also set himself apart, becoming one of the most influential and renowned mystery novelists in contemporary Japanese literature. This book is a powerful work from Mori Yamamura Tsuyoshi's 40-year career and was awarded the 2004 Japanese Mystery Novel Grand Prize.
Kazuharu Nakagawa, a woman abandoned by her lover after six years of love, comes to a snowy mountain to commit suicide. The harsh weather on the mountain makes her hesitate, and she is saved by a passing climber. She falls instantly in love with this stranger. After being reborn, she works as a hostess at night in a club and is noticed by the leader of the cult, the Angel of Prophecy, Fugen. When she is kidnapped by the Angel of Prophecy, she is rescued by her savior, Kazuhara Kishio, and the two fall in love.
At middle age, Yamaguchi Naoyoshi finally builds his own house and lives a happy life with his wife and children. His wife has an affair with someone else and joins the cult. Later, she is killed in a fire at a hotel while having an affair. To avenge his wife, he joins the Victim Association of the Angel of Prophecy. Kazuhara's wife and daughter are killed in a fire when their car collides with the car of the cult leader, Fugen. Kazuhara swears to avenge his wife and fights alone against the Angel of Prophecy. He abducts Fugen, the leader of the Angel of Prophecy, to the snowy mountain for the final showdown, and the two perish in the same fire.
At the foot of the mountain, Kazuharu Nakagawa waits alone among the cherry blossoms for Kazuhara's return.