The Graveyard Apartment (43 page)

Abruptly, Cookie raised her head.

 

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Also by
Mariko Koike

The Cat in the Coffin

A Cappella

Also Translated by Deborah Boliver Boehm

The Cat in the Coffin,
by Mariko Koike

The Changeling,
by Kenzaburo Oe

Death by Water,
by Kenzaburo Oe

The Tattoo Murder Case,
by Akimitsu Takagi

 

About the Author and Translator

Mariko Koike
was born in Tokyo and is the recipient of a number of literary awards, including the Naoki Prize, the Shibata Renzaburo Award, and most recently the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature. You can sign up for email updates
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Deborah Boliver Boehm
is also the translator of Koike's 2009 release,
The Cat in the Coffin,
and of Kenzaburo Oe's
The Changeling
.

 

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Epilogue

Also by Mariko Koike

About the Author and Translator

Copyright

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

 

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THE GRAVEYARD APARTMENT.
Copyright © 1993 by Mariko Koike. Translation copyright © 2016 by Deborah Boliver Boehm. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

 

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Cover design by Young Jin Lim

 

Cover photographs: building © Eduardo Ripoll/Arcangel Images; sky, graveyard, and trees © Shutterstock

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Names: Koike, Mariko, 1952– author. | Boehm, Deborah Boliver, translator.

Title: The graveyard apartment: a novel / Mariko Koike; translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm.

Other titles: Bochi o miorosu ie. English

Description: First U.S. edition. | New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2016. | “First published in Japan under the title Bochi o miorosu ie by Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.” (Tokyo, 1993)—Verso title page.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016007862 | ISBN 9781250060549 (hardback) | ISBN 9781466865822 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Young families—Fiction. | Apartment houses—Fiction. | Basements—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Horror. | GSAFD: Horror tales. | Suspense fiction.

Classification: LCC PL855.O3525 B6313 2016 | DDC 895.63/5—dc23

LC record available at
https://lccn.loc.gov/2016007862

 

e-ISBN 9781466865822

 

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First published in Japan under the title
Bochi o miorosu ie
by Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.

 

First U.S. Edition: October 2016