転の声

Inai fronts GiCCHO, a rock band that has worked its way up to a first slot on a big live music programme on television. Yet he is uneasy: his throat has started to fail him, and the songs he wrote no longer come out as they should. Fretting over how to keep the band in demand, he lets a charismatic ticket tout who calls himself Eseken persuade him that touting is a mark of true worth, and begins having the band's own concert tickets sold on at inflated prices. Every markup brings him a guilty thrill. Between gigs he trawls social media for anything said about him, kind or cruel. Drawing on the music business from the inside, the novel looks at fans, fame and the pull of the resale market.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

162 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2024 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

40 when first published

ISBN

9784163918822 (original)