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ISBN10: 0692422129
ISBN13: 9780692422120
Publisher: Derek Vasconi
Published: May 22 2015
Pages: 362
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780692422120
Publisher: Derek Vasconi
Published: May 22 2015
Pages: 362
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Winner of the National Indie Excellence Award for Best Horror Book of 2016
Winner of the Indie Reader Discovery Award for Best Horror Book of 2016
WINNER OF THE 2016 JACK EADON AWARD FOR BEST BOOK IN A CONTEMPORARY DRAMA!
ONE OF THE TOP 100 NOTABLE BOOKS IN THE 2016 SHELF UNBOUND BEST INDIE BOOK COMPETITION
Finalist for the 2016 Eric Hoffer Award
Finalist for the 2016 Kindle Book Review Award
FINALIST FOR THE 2106 FOREWORD INDIES BEST HORROR BOOK
Japanese horror? Check.
The bastard child of Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 and Stephen King's CARRIE, KAI explores how one innocent girl becomes the target of enormous rage living inside another girl-who is seemingly from another world.
Satsuki Takamoto is an invisible otaku teenager in Hiroshima. The only thing she has going for her is the upcoming birth of her sister. No longer will she be alone. But after tragedy strikes her family, Satsuki loses her one chance at happiness. She spirals into a deep depression, shutting out everyone and everything by locking herself inside her bedroom-for good. Her sadness, however, pales in comparison to her uncontrollable anger. It spreads like a nuclear fire, ambivalent to what or who it destroys, and won't stop until Satsuki accepts her sister's death.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world in Evanston, Illinois, Seul Bi Rissiello can't sleep because every time she closes her eyes, she relives her adoptive parents' gruesome deaths. Why is she thinking so much about them now, ten years afterward? As she struggles with working at a clinic for the mentally disturbed, Seul Bi starts to unravel under the weight of living a lonely life and being twice an orphan. Her life devolves into a series of ominous and dangerous hallucinations that threaten not only her sanity, but her very existence as well.
As both girls struggle to understand what is happening to them, their enigmatic connection comes into focus, raising the question: What if all the suffering in your life was carefully choreographed by somebody you've never met?
Japanese horror novels are few and far between these days, but this is a true standout even among all other Asian horror novels. A must read for anybody who enjoys Japanese culture and the dark stories about Japan.
Winner of the Indie Reader Discovery Award for Best Horror Book of 2016
WINNER OF THE 2016 JACK EADON AWARD FOR BEST BOOK IN A CONTEMPORARY DRAMA!
ONE OF THE TOP 100 NOTABLE BOOKS IN THE 2016 SHELF UNBOUND BEST INDIE BOOK COMPETITION
Finalist for the 2016 Eric Hoffer Award
Finalist for the 2016 Kindle Book Review Award
FINALIST FOR THE 2106 FOREWORD INDIES BEST HORROR BOOK
Japanese horror? Check.
The bastard child of Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 and Stephen King's CARRIE, KAI explores how one innocent girl becomes the target of enormous rage living inside another girl-who is seemingly from another world.
Satsuki Takamoto is an invisible otaku teenager in Hiroshima. The only thing she has going for her is the upcoming birth of her sister. No longer will she be alone. But after tragedy strikes her family, Satsuki loses her one chance at happiness. She spirals into a deep depression, shutting out everyone and everything by locking herself inside her bedroom-for good. Her sadness, however, pales in comparison to her uncontrollable anger. It spreads like a nuclear fire, ambivalent to what or who it destroys, and won't stop until Satsuki accepts her sister's death.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world in Evanston, Illinois, Seul Bi Rissiello can't sleep because every time she closes her eyes, she relives her adoptive parents' gruesome deaths. Why is she thinking so much about them now, ten years afterward? As she struggles with working at a clinic for the mentally disturbed, Seul Bi starts to unravel under the weight of living a lonely life and being twice an orphan. Her life devolves into a series of ominous and dangerous hallucinations that threaten not only her sanity, but her very existence as well.
As both girls struggle to understand what is happening to them, their enigmatic connection comes into focus, raising the question: What if all the suffering in your life was carefully choreographed by somebody you've never met?
Japanese horror novels are few and far between these days, but this is a true standout even among all other Asian horror novels. A must read for anybody who enjoys Japanese culture and the dark stories about Japan.
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