{"id":216,"date":"2002-02-03T10:05:49","date_gmt":"2002-02-03T16:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/uncategorized\/the-earthquake-bird"},"modified":"2016-10-25T09:20:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:20:27","slug":"earthquake-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/reviews\/book\/earthquake-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"The Earthquake Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<!-- 2002-02-02 10:05 --><i>The Earthquake Bird<\/i> is the first book I&#8217;ve read by a foreigner in Japan that isn&#8217;t about being a foreigner in Japan. It is set in Tokyo and the protaganist is English. The sense of place is dead-on, so all the familiar dissonance of being a foreigner in Japan is felt, but The Earthquake Bird is not about that. It is a psychological thriller; it is a murder mystery which has just won the John Creasey Memorial Dagger award as a newcomer to crime fiction.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\n&#8220;Early this morning, several hours before my arrest&#8230;&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nThe writing itself is mesmerizing. I read it over two days and that first night I dreamed in the voice of the narrator.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- 2016-10-25. Updated. Removed dead link. --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Earthquake Bird.<br \/>\nSusanna Jones.<br \/>\nMysterious Press, New York. 2001<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/reviews\/book\/earthquake-bird\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[76,145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}