From the Fatherland with Love
by:
Ryu Murakami (author)
New in original packaging, Free Delivery, From the Fatherland with Love, Ryu Murakami - Hardcover Book - NEW
New in original packaging, Free Delivery, From the Fatherland with Love, Ryu Murakami - Hardcover Book - NEW
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781908968456 (1908968451)
ASIN: 1908968451
Publish date: 2013-05-09
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Pages no: 672
Edition language: English
The first thing I noticed, other than the spectacular cover (the gas mask/saw/mustard gas version), was the page count. This is a large book. Epic. I'm sure the translation team tried very hard to get it at exactly 666 pages for the English edition.The plot is ostensibly "North Korea invades Japan w...
the most intelligent thing I've seen written about Ryu Murakami is the comment "R. Murakami seems to be able to write in two modes: either the blood-splattered horror-grotesque or the long diagnosis-of-Japan through its undercasts narration." the former, it would seem, tends to be short, intensely g...
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