Death Sentences by Kawamata Chiaka

Japan, 1980s: A special police squad is tracking down one of the “afflicted” to recover the “stuff. ” Although the operation seems like a drug bust, the “stuff” 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. This 2012 University of Minnesota Press Paperback is in good condition.

ISBN: 9780816654550 SKU: 1575006 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

Location: Sci Fi