Shibumi
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
Shibumi
| Author | Trevanian |
|---|---|
| Published | 1979 |
| Pages | 400 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Trevanian’s thriller about Nicholai Hel — raised in Shanghai, interned in occupied Japan, later the world’s most expensive assassin — written as a send-up of the spy genre and organised around the Japanese aesthetic of shibumi*, effortless understatement.* |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @moseskagan — named in the replies to his question “What historical fiction should I read next? (Bonus points for something involving building or trade, rather than violence)”, April 2025. Full list: What historical fiction should I… (tweet).
Connections
- What historical fiction should I… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Historical Fiction — the genre the thread was asking about.
What links here
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