Author: Kawamata Chiaka Title: Death Sentences
Description: University of Minnesota Press 2012 Paperback, 294pp. Japan, 1980s: A special police squad is tracking down one of the â€oeafflicted” to recover the â€oestuff. ” Although the operation seems like a drug bust, the â€oestuff” is actually some kind of text. Death Sentences—a work of science fiction that shares its conceit with the major motion picture The Ring—tells the story of a mysterious surrealist poem, penned in the 1940s, which, through low-tech circulation across time, kills its readers, including Arshile Gorky and Antonin Artaud, before sparking a wave of suicides after its publication in 1980s Japan. Mixing elements of Japanese hard-boiled detective story, horror, and science fiction, the novel ranges across time and space, from the Left Bank of Paris to the planet Mars. (ISBN: 9780816654550). Good.
Keywords: Fiction, Thriller, Science-Fiction9780816654550 9780816654550
Price: NZD 13.50 = appr. US$ 8.72 Seller: Book Haven
- Book number: 1575006
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