Gilded Family (Part 2)

Author: (Japanese) Yasuzo Yamazaki
Translator: Ye Weiqiu Tang Yuemei
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: The entire book is set in the financial world, genuinely reflecting the base and dark side of banks, as well as the corrupt and collusive practices between bankers and politicians. It deeply exposes the predatory nature of capitalist society. Masao Oba, the general manager of the Kobe Bank, appears to be a successful and respected banker on the surface, but secretly maintains mistresses and lives a debauched life with multiple women. He manipulates his daughter's marriage to high-ranking officials to establish connections and attempts to achieve his ambition of merging with other banks. Masao's eldest son, Teppei, is a young and talented individual who borrows money to build blast furnaces, but because he resembles his grandfather, Masao suspects he is the result of an incestuous relationship between his wife and father, and cannot fully support him. To fulfill his own ambitions, Masao sets a cunning trap by exploiting Teppei's company's financial difficulties, gradually leading him into a deeper abyss.