02907cam a2200481 i 4500 2578695090 TxAuBib 20251001120000.0 250715s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024951582 9781419777073 1419777076 (OCoLC)1451792473 TxAuBib rda eng jpn Isaka, Kotaro. Spin monster. Seesaw monster ; : Spin monster / Kotaro Isaka ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Malissa. Spin monster. New York : The Overlook Press, 2025. 147, 181 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes an extract from Hotel Lucky Seven, a novel by Kotaro Isaka, translated from the Japanese by Brian Bergstrom. "Originally published by Chuokoron-Shinsha in Japan as Seesaw monster 2019"--Title page verso. Seesaw Monster: Poor Naoto. A pharmaceutical salesman in Japan in the booming 1980s, his job has him working long hours, answering to his demanding boss and entertaining entitled customers. And at home, his wife, Miyako, and his mother are always feuding, making each other miserable. Why can’t the two just get along? Then one day a mysterious visitor shows up at their door with a possible answer. Their conflict is larger—and far more ancient—than it might appear. When Naoto uncovers something wrong at work and his life is suddenly in danger, can the two women set aside their differences to save him? Spin Monster: Decades later, in our near-future, surveillance, facial-recognition software, and AI dominate Japan. The most sensitive information lives only on paper, and Mito makes his living delivering it. When a chance meeting with a stranger on a train draws Mito into a possible conspiracy, he finds himself face-to-face with his own enemy, a tragic double whose life has been intertwined with his own. Is this another instance of the ancient feud? And what role will Miyako, now in her nineties, play in this deadly game? 20251001. English, translated from the Japanese. Artificial intelligence Fiction. Conspiracies Fiction. Spies Fiction. Families Japan Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Mythology Japan Fiction. Upside-down books. Thrillers (Fiction.) lcgft Novellas. Malissa, Sam, translator. Bergstrom, Brian, translator. TXKIP