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Loop (Paperback)
Koji Suzuki; Translated by Glynne Walley
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R346
Discovery Miles 3 460
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Stunning Japanese novel with a chilling twist - the follow-up to
Ring and Spiral. Kaoru's father, Hideyuki, lies dying in a Tokyo
hospital, his body ravaged by viral cancer. This nightmarish
incurable disease has sprung out of nowhere and has begun to affect
organisms all over the planet. Twenty years ago Hideyki worked on a
virtual reality project which replicated evolution on earth, called
the Loop. The project failed when the organisms within it
inexplicably stopped reproducing normally and started cloning.
Nearly all of the other scientists who worked on the Loop are
already dead - from cancer. To get to the heart of the mystery,
Kaoru must travel to the other side of the planet, to the Mojave
desert. The secret he encounters there will overturn everything he
thought he knew about the world - and his own identity. In this
suspense-filled follow-up to 'Ring' and 'Spiral', Suzuki
masterfully confounds the reader with a stunning new twist on the
Ring mythology.
Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi Hakkenden is one of the monuments of
Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of
the most popular and influential books of the nineteenth century
and has been adapted many times into film, television, fiction, and
comics. His Master's Blade, the second part of Hakkenden, begins
the story of the eight Dog Warriors created from the mystic union
between Princess Fuse and the dog Yatsufusa and born into eight
different samurai families in fifteenth-century Japan. The first is
Inuzuka Shino, orphaned descendent of proud warriors. Left with
nothing save a magical sword and the bead that marks him as a Dog
Warrior, young Shino escapes his evil aunt and uncle and sets out
to restore his family name. Unaware of their karmic bond, Shino and
the other Dog Warriors are drawn into a world of vendettas and
quests, gallants, and rogues, as each strives to learn his true
nature and find his place in the eight-man fraternity.
Stunning Japanese thriller with a chilling supernatural twist - the
follow-up to Ring. Pathologist Ando is at a low point in his life.
His small son's death from drowning has resulted in the break-up of
his marriage and he is suffering from traumatic recurrent
nightmares. Work is his only escape, and his depressing world of
loneliness and regret is shaken up when an old rival from medical
school, Ryuji Takayama, turns up on his slab ready to be dissected.
Through Ryuji's bizarre demise Ando learns of a series of
mysterious deaths that seem to have been caused by a sinister
virus. From beyond the grave Ryuji appears to be leading Ando
towards a suspicious videotape - could this hold the answer to the
riddle of the strange deaths? Or is it merely the first clue? When
Ando meets Mai, an attractive former student of Ryuji's, his desire
to solve the puzzle transcends curiosity and becomes a matter of
life or death. 'Spiral' is the stunning sequel to the highly
acclaimed 'Ring', and can also be read as a standalone.
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Ring (Paperback, New Ed)
Koji Suzuki; Translated by Robert B. Rohmer, Glynne Walley
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R341
Discovery Miles 3 410
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Stunning Japanese thriller with a chilling supernatural twist. The
novel that inspired the cult Japanese movie and the Hollywood
blockbuster of the same name. Asakawa is a hardworking journalist
who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer
for his newspaper's weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he
doesn't take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies
suddenly - until a chance conversation reveals that another healthy
teenager died at exactly the same time, in chillingly similar
circumstances. Sensing a story, Asakawa begins to investigate, and
soon discovers that this strange simultaneous sudden-death syndrome
also affected another two teenagers. Exactly one week before their
mysterious deaths the four teenagers all spent the night at a
leisure resort in the same log cabin. When Asakawa visits the
resort, the mystery only deepens. A comment made in the guest book
by one of the teenagers leads him to a particular vidoetape with a
portentous message at the end: Those who have viewed these images
are fated to die at this exact hour one week from now. Asakawa
finds himself in a race against time - he has only seven days to
find the cause of the teenagers' deaths before it finds him. The
hunt puts him on the trail of an apocalytpic power that will force
Asakawa to choose between saving his family and saving
civilization.
Kyokutei Bakin's Nanso Satomi hakkenden is one of the monuments of
Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of
the most popular and influential books of the nineteenth century
and has been adapted many times into film, television, fiction, and
comics. An Ill-Considered Jest, the first part of Hakkenden, tells
the story of the Satomi clan patriarch Yoshizane and his daughter
Princess Fuse. An ill-advised comment forces Yoshizane to betroth
his daughter to the family dog, creating a supernatural union that
ultimately produces the Eight Dog Warriors. Princess Fuse's heroic
and tragic sacrifice, and her strength, intelligence, and
self-determination throughout, render her an immortal character
within Japanese fiction. Eight Dogs is the culmination of centuries
of premodern Japanese tale-telling, combining aspects of historical
romance, fantasy, Tokugawa-era popular fiction, and Chinese
vernacular stories. Glynne Walley's lively translation conveys the
witty and colorful prose of the original, producing a faithful and
entertaining edition of this important literary classic.
A haunting collection of short stories from Koji Suzuki, author of
the smash thriller, "Ring," which spawned the hit film and sequels.
The first story in this collection has been adapted to film ("Dark
Water," Walter Salles), and another, ""Adrift"" is currently in
production with Dimension Films.
Learn the final truth about the Ring
In this much-awaited conclusion of the "Ring" trilogy, everything
you thought you knew about the story will have to be put side. In
"Loop," the killer mimics both AIDS and cancer in a deadly new
guise. Kaoru Futami, a youth mature beyond his years, must hope to
find answers in the deserts of New Mexico and the Loop project, a
virtual matrix created by scientists. The fate of more than just
his loved ones depends on Kaoru's success.
"Loop" is written as a stand-alone work though it is best enjoyed
by fans of "Ring "and "Spiral." The author's own favorite of the
trilogy, this astounding finale is an emotionally resonant tale
that scales conceptual heights from an angle all its own. Fiction
about fiction has rarely been so gripping.
Kyokutei Bakin's Nanso Satomi hakkenden is one of the monuments of
Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of
the most popular and influential books of the nineteenth century
and has been adapted many times into film, television, fiction, and
comics. An Ill-Considered Jest, the first part of Hakkenden, tells
the story of the Satomi clan patriarch Yoshizane and his daughter
Princess Fuse. An ill-advised comment forces Yoshizane to betroth
his daughter to the family dog, creating a supernatural union that
ultimately produces the Eight Dog Warriors. Princess Fuse's heroic
and tragic sacrifice, and her strength, intelligence, and
self-determination throughout, render her an immortal character
within Japanese fiction. Eight Dogs is the culmination of centuries
of premodern Japanese tale-telling, combining aspects of historical
romance, fantasy, Tokugawa-era popular fiction, and Chinese
vernacular stories. Glynne Walley's lively translation conveys the
witty and colorful prose of the original, producing a faithful and
entertaining edition of this important literary classic.
Good Dogs explores the intersection of didacticism, Chinese
vernacular scholarship, social criticism, and commercial
storytelling in late Tokugawa Japan through an examination of a
masterpiece of 19th century popular fiction: the novel Nanso Satomi
Hakkenden (The Lives of the Eight Dogs of the Satomi of Southern
Kazusa; for short, Hakkenden), serialized from 1814 to 1842 by
Kyokutei Bakin (1767-1848). The author argues that in Bakin's
hands, popular fiction functioned to mobilize and hybridize high
culture and low, official and heterodox ideologies, and the demands
of both the moralist and the marketplace. Good Dogs begin with
detailed examinations of Hakkenden as, in turn, a work of gesaku
(popular fiction); an adaptation and critique of the Chinese
vernacular novel Shuihu zhuan (J. Suikoden, The Water Margin); and
an exercise in kanzen choaku, "encouraging virtue and chastising
vice." Then it explores how the novel's blend of didacticism and
playfulness destabilizes the putatively moral categories of gender,
species, and social class, while foregrounding an image of moral
agency that prefigures modern individualism. Good Dogs combines
close readings of Hakkenden with a consideration of the novel's
place in 19th-century Japan (including its Meiji reception), as
well as its place in East Asian vernacular fiction.
Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi Hakkenden is one of the monuments of
Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of
the most popular and influential books of the nineteenth century
and has been adapted many times into film, television, fiction, and
comics. His Master's Blade, the second part of Hakkenden, begins
the story of the eight Dog Warriors created from the mystic union
between Princess Fuse and the dog Yatsufusa and born into eight
different samurai families in fifteenth-century Japan. The first is
Inuzuka Shino, orphaned descendent of proud warriors. Left with
nothing save a magical sword and the bead that marks him as a Dog
Warrior, young Shino escapes his evil aunt and uncle and sets out
to restore his family name. Unaware of their karmic bond, Shino and
the other Dog Warriors are drawn into a world of vendettas and
quests, gallants, and rogues, as each strives to learn his true
nature and find his place in the eight-man fraternity.
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