Exciting and original... If only all 'foreigner in Japan' novels were this good – The Japan Times

Excellent... Hogg writes with a mesmeric quality – The Big Issue

An intelligent, gripping and stylish love story set against a beautifully drawn contemporary Japan – Best Novels of 2015, The Observer

A fine novel – Sebastian Faulks

All the ingredients of classic noir – The Independent

An engaging and pacy plot with entrancing writing in this expertly told dark fable of modern Japan – The Bookseller

A magnificent writer – Amol Rajan

An atmospheric noir thriller – Kirkus Reviews

My novel of the year. An unforgettable portrait of the Japanese capital – Tom Holland, The Evening Standard

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A Sacrifice - originally published as Tokyo - is a now a Ridley Scott film. Directed by Jordan Scott, and starring Eric Bana, Sadie Sink, and Sylvia Hoeks.

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Social psychologist Ben Monroe has returned to Tokyo after a failed marriage, determined to seek out his former lover Kozue. His estranged teenage daughter Mazzy reluctantly flies from California to join him. On the flight she meets a young Japanese man, Koji, a cult survivor, who tells her the story of the luminous night princess Kaguya, a powerful tale of beauty and obsession. As Ben delves deeper into the underworld in search of Kozue, Mazzy and Koji are compelled to follow, and their four lives dangerously intersect as past and present collide.

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Interviews with Nicholas Hogg in Litro and Carve Magazine explore the writing of A Sacrifice.

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Photo by Lee Chapman