ANOTHER WAY TO DIE

Last orders of a Japanese officer in Manchuria, during the final moments of the Second World War.This story is translated by Jay Rubin and published in the January 20, 1997 issue of The New Yorker.The novel is about a low-key unemployed man, Toru Okada, whose cat runs away. A chain of events follow that prove that his seemingly mundane life is much more complicated than it appears.