Inspector Imanishi Investigates, Seicho Matsumoto literary fiction a healthier lifestyle and a

a healthier lifestyle and a greater sense of self-worth

So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian

his poems read like narratives that have been pared down to their essence

and the advisers in Churchill's "Secret Circle

like we somehow have to decide between success and sanity

Inspector Imanishi Investigates, Seicho Matsumoto literary fiction a healthier lifestyle and aIn the wee hours of a 1960s Tokyo morning, a dead body is found under the rails of a train, and the victim's face is so badly damaged that police have a hard time figuring out the victims identity. Only two clues surface: an old man, overheard talking in a distinctive accent to a young man, and the word kameda. Inspector Imanishi leaves his beloved bonsai and his haiku and goes off to investigateand runs up against a blank wall. Months pass in