ニムロッド

Satoshi Nakamoto, 38, shares his name with bitcoin's mysterious inventor, which is perhaps why the boss of his Tokyo server company makes him the sole member of a new cryptocurrency unit. Without asking why, he sets idle machines to mine coins. He sees Noriko Takubo, a high-flying dealmaker at a foreign bank who has been through an abortion after a prenatal test and a divorce, and who wonders what her driven life is for. His former colleague Jin Nimuro, a would-be novelist three times rejected, has moved to Nagoya after a breakdown; he writes under the name Nimrod and keeps emailing Nakamoto entries from a list of failed aircraft, from nuclear planes to wartime suicide gliders. Those messages swell into a fable of a king grown rich on bitcoin, living in a tower above a race of immortal last humans.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

136 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2018 by Kodansha

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9784065143476 (original)

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