Tale of the violent and twisted life of a flawed man. It is Osaka in the 1930s. Kim Shunpei, a migrant from Jeju Islands, works at a fish cake factory and is widely feared for his physical strength and brutality. He moves through life in the only way he knows how: by terrorizing those around him. A bestseller in Japan, this harrowing, kaleidoscopic novel portrays the violent and eventful life of a flawed man modelled after the author’s own father. Winner of the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize.