Seventeen: The shocking true story of a teacher's affair with her student

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In the midst of this endless petty bitching and squabbling is our seasoned reporter, Yukki, working at the North Kanto Times, who finds himself in charge of the coverage of the biggest air disaster the area has ever seen – and it is in their patch. Seventeen tells the story of how that coverage impacts on Yuuki, his family and everyone involved in the reporting and does so in an intimate, searching and very on point fashion. The claustrophobic nature of the first-person narrative means we never really get to learn Miss P’s motives. Why does she pursue him? Does she understand what she’s doing?

Hideo Yokoyama ( 横山 秀夫) worked as an investigative reporter with a regional newspaper north of Tokyo for 12 years before striking out on his own as a fiction writer. He made his literary debut in 1998 when his collection of police stories Kage no kisetsu (Season of Shadows) won the Matsumoto Seicho Prize; the volume was also short-listed for the Naoki Prize. In 2000 his story Doki (Motive) was awarded the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Short Stories. His 2002 novel Han'ochi (Half Solved) earned a Konomys No. 1 and gained him a place among Japan's best-selling authors. He repeated his Konomys No. 1 ranking in 2013 with 64 Rokuyon (64), his first novel in seven years. Other prominent works include his 2003 Kuraimazu hai (Climber's High), centering on the crash of JAL Flight 123 that he covered as a reporter in 1985; the World War II novel Deguchi no nai umi (Seas with No Exit, 2004); the police novel Shindo zero (Seismic Intensity Zero, 2005); and the story collection Rinjo (Initial Investigation, 2004). In a surreal case of life imitating art, the book about a woman’s experiences of everyday sexism caused controversy, with many of Irene’s male fans cutting up and burning posters and photocards of the idol in disgust at her “feminist leanings.” The book, which became the first million-selling Korean novel since Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom in 2009, follows an average young woman in Korea who struggles with sexist experiences and the expectation and reality of quitting her job to become a stay-at-home wife and mother. She later struggles with mental illness, and we see her “psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny.”When I finished this that I suddenly realized how Yuuki did teach me few lessons about hardships and surviving while taking care of others hearts, on how to keep on being rationale and doing the right thing and avoiding such unfairness and judgement. It was a great reading journey, getting goosebumps here and there. Reading about Anzai as well as how Yuuki trying his hard to be a better father to Jun and Yuka it was all so heart-warming. The crash incident that grabbed all the time and giving restless nights to Yuuki, bringing such emotional roller coaster both to him and people around him was being told in detailed with nice prose and wordings (thanks to great translation work). I was been transported to North Kanto Times HQ, experiencing the massive work of journalists and reporters in all division, some office politic that giving me so much annoyance to few characters, a story of an avid mountain climbers, good friends and subordinates. It was all wrapping up in this novel so beautifully, very sharp, a bit harsh and bitterness but portraying a great brilliant plot as a whole. F.S.Fitzgerald has mentioned "Seventeen" in his personal "10 best books" he ever read list as "The funniest book I’ve ever read". It's 1992. Like every other seventeen-year-old boy, Joe has one eye on his studies, the other on his social life - smoking, Britpop, girls. He's looking ahead to a gap year full of travel and adventure before university when his teacher - attractive, mid-thirties - takes an interest in him. It seems like a fantasy come true. Yokoyama's detail writing based on his experience as a journalist brought me to the North Kanto Times office, where everything seemed tense yet dramatic. From the race against time, office politics and in-fighting, to deciding between journalism ethics and publishing the hottest scoop ahead of the other newspapers. The plot of the book is detailed and by detailed I do mean that it is more a factual graph of the disaster and the environment than a fictional thriller; which at times I loved cause I was just soaking in the information, but there were times I wanted more than just facts for my taste – I wanted the heart pounding sensation of being in the midst of a high speed chase; except in a book!

But that was not the story Gibson has chosen to tell. What he tells instead is a cautionary tale, one that stresses that fantasy should really remain a fantasy unless you’re prepared to deal with the consequences. There are always consequences.Disclaimer: A Physical Copy was provided via Hachette India. The Thoughts, opinions & feelings expressed in the review are however my own. On the day that Yuuki was scheduled to meet his best friend, Anzai, and go on a short climbing holiday, a plane crashes into the mountains, killing over 500 people. As the senior reporter for a local provincial paper, Yuuki stays in the office and is put in charge of the paper's coverage of the crash. Anzai also doesn't make it to the meeting point. He collapses on a city street and is taken to the hospital where he lays in a coma. If you want to grab a readers attention authors could do worse than look at how John Brownlow does it. Yanked in by a chain! I love the tone, there's a wry, dry humorous tone in the beginning which I really appreciate although things alter later on when things go Pete Tong and 17 is operating in, lets say, an improvised manner. Good speech is more important than the actual words you say... The sound. The smile. The gentleness, warmth, and vitality. The voice that says, ‘I like people. I like you.'' It’s 1992. Like every other seventeen-year-old boy, Joe has one eye on his studies, the other on his social life – smoking, Britpop, girls. He’s looking ahead to a gap year full of travel and adventure before university when his teacher – attractive, mid-thirties – takes an interest in him. It seems like a fantasy come true.

This is a book that is more than worthy of your time, I hope he keeps writing in this vein as I for one would read anything else he decided to publish. A Japanese crime phenomenon! A gripping and powerful memoir reminiscent of Notes on a Scandal, An Education and My Dark Vanessa* I flip forward. Will we ever be taken to the remote mountainside where body parts have been strewn? Play, adapted by Hugh Stanislaus Stange and Stannard Mears, produced in 1918 with Gregory Kelly and Ruth Gordon.

A Japan Air Lines jumbo jet crashed in a mountainous area between Gunma and Nagano prefectures on a summer evening. 520 lost lives, 4 survived. A seasoned reporter was tasked to lead the reporting team covering the accident of unprecedented scale. Seventeen, then, is the straightforward account of what happened over the next two years, when Gibson (not his real name) was still very much a child. He’s writing under a pseudonym for various reasons – shame, protecting both the innocent and the guilty – and the narrative unfolds in the present tense, thus leaving it absent of the benefits of hindsight.

With that said, we are so excited to dedicate a space to book lovers. We hope to diversify and expand your library, highlight established and emerging authors, and connect through a shared love of reading. How pretty do you sound? You can’t expect to charm a royal ball or end up with Rex Harrison with sloppy speech habits.” Seventeen promises to be a thriller. The blurb clearly states that the story holds the key to an unsolved mystery that Yuuki will solve after seventeen long years. Well, I think it's not really a thriller as there wasn't much to thrill me till the end. I had to wait a lot for something substantial to happen but sadly not much happened. This book was a disappointment as it did not deliver what it promised. I was really excited to unravel some things, sadly there wasn't much to unravel. I think that calling it a thriller raises the expectation of the reader and when there isn't much happening for a long time, the reader looses interest and is more likely to give up reading the book. I think this book is more of a Japanese drama than a thriller. I enjoyed the snippets of Seventeen/Jone’s life that were peppered throughout the story. They ‘humanised’ him, adding context to the story and insight into his personality and I couldn’t help but root for him, even when I shouldn’t be!

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Chinese restaurants are kind to dieters. Have only a half-cup of rice... Dessert? Make it one fortune cookie.” Seventeen ist der Nachfolger von Sixteen. Um seinen Platz musste er nicht kämpfen, denn Sixteen verschwand einfach. Jetzt hat gibt es einen neuen Auftrag in Berlin. Danach soll Seventeen im Vorbeigehen nur noch eine Kleinigkeit erledigen. Und gerade diese vermeintlich einfache Sache geht irgendwie schief. Der gnadenlose Killer Seventeen kommt ins Grübeln. Ist das immer so richtig, was er tut, selbst wenn es für die gute Sache oder die gute Seite ist? Aber er darf nicht schwach werden. Wer schwach wird mal sich selbst eine Zielscheibe auf die Brust. Noch gibt es einen nächsten Auftrag: Sixteen. Thirty years on, this is Joe's gripping record of the illicit relationship that dominated his adolescence and dictated the course of his life. With a heady dose of nineties nostalgia and the perfectly captured mood of those final months at school, Joe charts the enduring legacy of deceit and the indelibility of decisions made at seventeen. Handler vermittelt ihm seine nächste Aufgabe. Eine verdammt heikle und unangenehme. Vor ihm als No. 17 gab es entsprechend sechzehn andere Auftragskiller an der Spitze. Fünfzehn sind tot, die meisten nicht freiwillig aus dem Leben geschieden. Nur Sixteen lebt noch und ist ein Mysterium. Vor vielen Jahren hat er sich einfach aus dem Staub gemacht, ist spurlos von der Bildfläche verschwunden. Nun erhält Seventeen den Auftrag, ihn aufzuspüren und zu erledigen. Andernfalls könnten andere denken, dass die Zeit für No. Eighteen gekommen sei. Doch Seventeen weiß, dass Sixteen eine verdammt schwierige Aufgabe sein wird. Seventeen bills itself as "an investigative thriller in the aftermath of an air disaster". Truly, it isn't.