Translation Works
To Japanese
The 2nd Selected Works
TITLE
My Blood is Someone else's
(Ore no chi wa tanin no chi)
AUTHOR
Translator
GERMAN / Otto Putz published
Originally Published by:
Kawade Shobo Shinsha (1974)
Shinchosha (1979) (pb)
KEY POINTS
  • An outrageous and thrilling novel written in the hard-boiled style
SYNOPSIS
What is the real nature of this mysterious man with superhuman strength embroiled in a yakuza turf war?
 
Just posted to the region office of his construction company, Kinukawa is an apparently normal businessman. But when he succumbs to his fierce temper, his mind and body take separate paths, and the fearsomeness of this even to himself makes him completely lose control, and he loses consciousness of what he is doing. When he comes back to himself, he is confronted with terrible situations of his own making.
All kinds of things are smashed to smithereens, people have been thrown and beaten about, and there are puddles of blood all around. It seems that Kinukawa has gone on a rampage with frightening, superhuman strength, but he himself has no memory of it. According to eyewitnesses, he tops off his rampages by shouting "Excremento!"
Even as he is worried that he may some day actually kill someone, Kinukawa ends up being threatened into becoming a bodyguard for a yakuza gang. His gang is in the midst of a turf war with another gang, and the local mayor and police are also caught up in this power struggle. Kinukawa's participation irremediably escalates the conflict until the entire town is on a full-scale war footing.
Wanting to understand why he loses consciousness and becomes violent, Kinukawa asks a friend to help him figure it out. The friend begins to investigate taking the expletive "excremento," the meaning of which he did not at first understand, as a clue.
This outrageous hardboiled novel offers a story jam-packed with scenes of chaotic mayhem revolving around someone who could be characterized as a "super-violent" hero.
 
GENRE: Science fiction
 
AWARDS: 6th Seiun Award
(Given by the Japan Science Fiction Convention for outstanding science fiction works and activities)
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