From the inside flap:
"When Fumihiro Kuki is eleven years old, his elderly, enigmatic father calls him into his study for a meeting. "I created you to be a cancer on the world," his father tells him. It is a tradition in their wealthy family: a patriarch, when reaching the end of his life, will beget one last child to cause misery in a world that cannot be controlled or saved. From this point on, Fumihiro will be specially educated to learn to create as much destruction and unhappiness in the world around him as a single person can. Between his education in hedonism and his family's resources, Fumihiro's life is one without repercussions. Every door is open to him, for he need obey no laws and may live out any fantasy he might have, no matter how many people are hurt in the process. But as his education progresses, Fumihiro begins to question his father's mandate, and starts to resist."
Review:
Evil is a rare thing: it is a
perfect novel that works on all levels – emotional, plotwise, character-wise
and action-wise. I would not change one word of this original, disturbing and
intense work, whose ties to real world history serve to imbue Evil with a resonance it might otherwise
lack. This, of course, is worth owning, an entertaining, provocative and
landmark neo-pulp book.
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