Gold rush

Blurb

Inspired by a 1997 real-life murder of an elementary school student by a 14-year-old boy, who displayed the murdered boy's head by the entrance of a junior high school, Gold Rush is the story of a 14-year-old boy raised by his detached, repulsive father in the poor, crime-ridden Japanese port city of Yokohama ... a phenomenal bestseller in Japan, is a graphic, violent, controversial novel of the corruption of modern Japan and its youth.