
ZOO
Otsuichi(Author)
Haikasoru (Publisher)
Published on 17. September 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-4215-2587-7 (ISBN)
Description
There's nothing more bizarre than the human zoo.; Welcome to the human zoo.; Take a peek inside the cage.; In the human zoo, it's hard to tell who has the keys to the cage.
A man receives a photo of his girlfriend every day in the mail...so that he can keep track of her body's decomposition. A deathtrap that takes a week to kill its victims. Haunted parks and airplanes held in the sky by the power of belief. These are just a few of the stories by Otsuichi, Japan's master of dark fantasy.
A man receives a photo of his girlfriend every day in the mail...so that he can keep track of her body's decomposition. A deathtrap that takes a week to kill its victims. Haunted parks and airplanes held in the sky by the power of belief. These are just a few of the stories by Otsuichi, Japan's master of dark fantasy.
A man receives a photo of his girlfriend every day in the mail...so that he can keep track of her body's decomposition. A deathtrap that takes a week to kill its victims. Haunted parks and airplanes held in the sky by the power of belief. These are just a few of the stories by Otsuichi, Japan's master of dark fantasy.
A man receives a photo of his girlfriend every day in the mail...so that he can keep track of her body's decomposition. A deathtrap that takes a week to kill its victims. Haunted parks and airplanes held in the sky by the power of belief. These are just a few of the stories by Otsuichi, Japan's master of dark fantasy.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4215-2587-7 (9781421525877)
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Person
Born 1978 in Fukuoka, Otsuichi won the Sixth Jump Short Fiction/Nonfiction Prize when he was seventeen with his debut story "Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse." Now recognized as one of the most talented young fantasy/horror writers in Japan, his other English-language works include the short story collections Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse/Black Fairy Tale, and ZOO (Haikasoru). Goth won the Honkaku Mystery Award and was adapted into a feature film starring Rin Takanashi.