Kōji Suzuki Ordine dei libri

A collection of the most important essays of D.T. Suzuki, the leading authority on Buddhism of the twentieth century.

IS HOPE ITSELF THE ONLY ANSWER? The renowned author of the Ring novels unravels a story of lovers wrestling with the darkness within themselves—be it selfishness, lust, or despair—in a deeply introspective romantic mystery that will tug at your mind as well as your heart. A seemingly amnesiac woman sits mutely before her psychiatrist. Unable, or perhaps unwilling, to speak, the only time she shows any hint of emotion is when she hums a song—and the song becomes the first clue. Pregnant but abandoned by her lover, who boarded a tuna boat to brave turbulent waters far from home, she’d waded into the pitch-black waves one evening to drown herself...because when you feel like you’re stranded at sea all by yourself in the dead of the night, those waves call for you, lulling you to sink into the silence beneath. What we go on to discover is a cursed fate, a ruthless reality, and the dark humor of a world ruled by the indifferent forces of chance. They say you never know what the future holds, but what if you’re told that you only have precisely a fifty-fifty chance of attaining happiness?

Japans Stephen King präsentiert ein spannendes Werk, in dem Menschen in den USA spurlos verschwinden und Astronomen beunruhigende Himmelsphänomene beobachten. Die junge Saeko untersucht das Verschwinden einer Familie und gerät in einen Albtraum, während sich die Ereignisse durch ein Erdbeben in San Francisco zuspitzen.

WINNER OF THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD Now in paperback! The author of the Ring trilogy that spawned blockbuster movies on bothsides of the Pacific presents a new level of terror with an apocalyptic work that casts the veryearth and skies into doubt. When a team of American scientists tests new computer hardware by calculating the value of piinto the deep decimals, the figures begin to repeat a pattern where there ought to be none. It’smathematically untenable—unless the physical constants that undergird our universe havealtered, ever so slightly… A cascade of missing persons reports, far from being supernatural, threatens to be perfectlynatural—a profound disturbance in being itself—and explodes into a mind trip of a crescendo inthis tale of quantum horror. Koji Suzuki, born in 1957, held numerous odd jobs after college including a stint as a tutor. Thefather of two daughters, he’s also known in his native Japan for his guides on childrearing, anexpertise he acquired as a struggling writer and househusband. Edge is his eighth work toappear in English. Cover Design by Peter Mendelsund

L'acqua. L'acqua ci dà la vita, ma può anche togliercela. Ne abbiamo bisogno,eppure essa può ucciderci... Da queste considerazioni è partito Suzuki per scrivere questa raccolta di racconti, che si susseguono con lo stesso ritmo - ipnotico e inquietante, ricco di fascino, ma anche di tensione - delle onde di un mare mai calmo. Dalla misteriosa sparizione di un pescatore violento e ubriacone, alla rivelazione di un omicidio compiuto da una persona insospettabile (e in un modo insospettabile), l'autore crea atmosfere mutevoli, che alternano l'horror al thriller psicologico, il giallo classico alla ghost story.

På omslaget: "This much-awaited return to the Ring universe features three short stories focusing on its female characters, with a theme of birth."

Tutto inizia con una semplice voce che gira tra gli studenti di Tokyo: esiste una videocassetta che contiene un filmato particolare e chi lo vede è destinato a morire dopo sette giorni. Verità o leggenda metropolitana? In molti non credono all'esistenza di questa maledizione, ma la misteriosa morte di alcuni studenti fa sì che una giornalista si incuriosisca e cominci a indagare. Purtroppo per lei, quello che scoprirà sarà una terrificante verità...

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.