Author Info
<br/>Fuminori Nakamura was born in 1977 and graduated from Fukushima University in 2000. In 2002, he won the prestigious Noma Literary Prize for New Writers for his first novel, <i>A Gun</i>, and in 2005 he won the Akutagawa prize for <i>The Boy in the Earth</i>. <i>The Thief</i>, winner of the 2010 Oe Prize, Japan’s most important literary award, is his first novel to be published in English.<br/><br/><br/><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>