Hardcover novel = 1700 yen ($17.35 €13.08)

One of my senior schoolmate at high school is a novel writer. He wrote a novel recently. I bought it for 1700 yen ($17.35 €13.08) at a bookstore. 

Here is the cover of the novel. 

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Today's headline of Japan

Tokyo June 12

Two guardsmen illegally dumped 2250 batteries on the road. Those used-batteries were for their handy lights. It is required to ask the experts to discard batteries. But those guardsmen did not, because they wanted to save the cost of disposal. They just dumped batteries by themselves. It is illegal.