title: The Thief
author:  Fuminori Nakamura 
description: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000772591"><strong>Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2012</strong></a>: In Fuminori Nakamura's new novel, the main character weaves along the streets of Tokyo pickpocketing his way through the flow of humanity, as if in a dream. He lifts wallets filled with cash and credit cards with a masterful ease, his mind occupied with a trance-like debate about whether to care anymore. Whether to care about the young kid he sees clumsily stealing food at a supermarket. Whether to care about his partner, who disappeared after a botched robbery years ago. Oscillating between the real connection he establishes with the shoplifting boy and the drug-like daze of his own criminal past, the thief drifts back into the clutches of the mastermind of that ill-fated robbery. And the thief starts to wake up, only to realize that a noose is being carefully, and slowly, drawn around his neck. <i>--Benjamin Moebius</i>
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  **Also by Fuminori Nakamura**
  
  
  _The Thief_
  
  
  _Evil and the Mask_
  
  
  
  
  
  Kyonen no fuyu, kimi to wakare © 2013 Fuminori Nakamura. All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  First published in Japan in 2013 by KAWADE SHOBO SHINSHA Ltd. Publishers.
  
  
  
  
  
  Rights for this English edition arranged through Kodansha Ltd.
  
  
  Translation copyright © 2014 by Allison Markin Powell First published in
  English in 2014 by
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Soho Press
  
  
  
  
  
  853 Broadway
  
  
  
  
  
  New York, NY 10003
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nakamura, Fuminori, 1977—
  
  
  
  
  
  [Kyonen no fuyu kimi to wakare. English]
  
  
  
  
  
  Last winter, we parted / Fuminori Nakamura;
  
  
  
  
  
  [translated by Allison Markin Powell].
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN 978-1-61695-455-0
  
  
  
  
  
  eISBN 978-1-61695456-7
  
  
  
  
  
  1\. Writers—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation–Fiction. I. Powell, Allison
  Markin, translator. II. Title.
  
  
  
  
  
  PL873.5.A3