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In Japanese folklore, a ghost that arises from the burial of a pregnant woman is called an Ubume... In the first of the Kyogokudo series, the hero Kyogokudo is an exorcist with a twist: he doesn't believe in ghosts. To circumnavigate his clients' inability to come to grips with a problem being their own, he creates fake supernatural explanations that he exorcises with staged rituals. In his first adventure, Kyogokudo must unravel the mystery of a woman who's been pregnant for 20 months and find her husband, who disappeared 2 months into her pregnancy.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book contains well-drawn characters, a great story and an interesting mythological/psychological premise. Above all, however, it is fantastically atmospheric, redolent of both contemporary and post-war Japan. The cover suggests that this books fits into the horror/fantasy mould, but it is not as horrific as that suggests. It's also not as outlandishly fantastical as that suggests, as the otherworldly elements are firmly rooted in Japanese folklore. If you want a fascinating page-turner reminiscent of a dark Haruki Murakami at his best, then give this a try.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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The book itself revolves around a journalist whose endearing, yet sharp tongued friendship with a knowledgable bookseller/priest helps to solve the absurdly cliché yet ultimately puzzling dissapearance of a man from a locked room.
To begin with if you're going into this book thinking it might be a light afternoon read with a glass of wine may find their afternoons increasingly shortened and their wine cellar rapidly emptied, it is not a book for the faint hearted nor is it a book whose ideals should be passed off as a nonsensical rant, it is a deeply thought provoking and intellectual read done by a true master of the genre. Even the translation surprisingly doesn't take away any of the seriousness or thoughtfullness present, unlike many others which seem to lose that edge through the void of language.
Throughout the book we observe dramatic changes to the act of storytelling and notions of these ideas, mostly through whole chapters of wise philosophy and food for thought between these exchanges between the bookseller and the journalist, relating to such things as 'Are we real?', 'The perceptions of curses/bad omens' among many more, all managing to seemlessly interact with the story at that time.
If you're looking for a commitment, a lesson in intellectual ferocity, and just a damn good read! You've come to the right place.
To begin with if you're going into this book thinking it might be a light afternoon read with a glass of wine may find their afternoons increasingly shortened and their wine cellar rapidly emptied, it is not a book for the faint hearted nor is it a book whose ideals should be passed off as a nonsensical rant, it is a deeply thought provoking and intellectual read done by a true master of the genre. Even the translation surprisingly doesn't take away any of the seriousness or thoughtfullness present, unlike many others which seem to lose that edge through the void of language.
Throughout the book we observe dramatic changes to the act of storytelling and notions of these ideas, mostly through whole chapters of wise philosophy and food for thought between these exchanges between the bookseller and the journalist, relating to such things as 'Are we real?', 'The perceptions of curses/bad omens' among many more, all managing to seemlessly interact with the story at that time.
If you're looking for a commitment, a lesson in intellectual ferocity, and just a damn good read! You've come to the right place.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I love Kyogoku!
This book caused sensation when first published in Japan. Because this book has new way to look into "real". What is the real? Is it the things can say only one thing to everyone?
But don't worry! This book is very fine mystery as well. Someone disappeared from locked room and another one has been pregnant for two years.
This book caused sensation when first published in Japan. Because this book has new way to look into "real". What is the real? Is it the things can say only one thing to everyone?
But don't worry! This book is very fine mystery as well. Someone disappeared from locked room and another one has been pregnant for two years.
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