- Japanese culture, Yakuza, Los Angeles Police Department, murder
Rising Sun is a 1992 novel by Michael Crichton. It was his eighth under his own name and eighteenth overall, and is about a murder in the Los Angeles headquarters of Nakamoto, a fictional Japanese corporation. The book was published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. An image of fashion model Gia Carangi is incorporated in the cover art for the original edition.
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Classical in form, grave, contemporary and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Michael Crichton
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 399
- Publisher
- Random House Audio, Arrow, Yi Lin chu ban she
- Editions
- 54
- Language
- Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9781613835029
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“Actually, I was sitting on my bed in my apartment in Culver City, watching the Lakers game with the sound turned off, while I tried to study vocabulary for my introductory Japanese class.”
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