HONEYMOON TO NOWHERE
by Akimitsu Takagi & translated by Sadako Mizuguchi
Honeymoon To Nowhere ($12.00 paper; Jun. 10; 288 pp.; 1-56947-154-1): The first US trade edition of the 1965 novel by Takagi (The Informer, above, etc.), previously published in mass-market paper in 1977. Here, Etsuko Ogata overcomes her family’s many objections to her marrying the unsuitable Yoshihiro Tsukamoto—only to have her bridegroom disappear on the first night of their honeymoon and turn up dead the next morning.