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"'Intense and truly poignant. Akasaka reveals a true affinity with the female condition in our consumer, image - driven culture.' i-D 'Disturbing and original.' Esquire"
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A uniquely powerful and empowering road trip, and one of the most wonderful and startling debuts of the year
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17 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
it seems an English one. I read this work in Japanese six years ago. The wording is far from ordinary Japanese. In fact, the author Mari Akasaka, late thirties, has supent her adolescence in the United States, so she commands English. We can find many English-nesses in the work.
In the kingdom of the novel, a kind of white noise as "vibrations" which visually and tactilly other than aurally attacks the chasracters such as Rei Hayakawa and the teamster. Rei is a freelance journalist, who is nearly always surrounded with several kinds of "vibrations" that causes stresses in the society. One day, she cannot help controling her desire to escape from such noises. At the same time, the road jockey picks her in his truck. She feels at home with him in his motorlorry because it gives her other "vibrations" which causes ease for her.
They travel from Tokyo to Niigata, where is located on the coast of the Japan sea. Through the journey, they experience many types of "vibrations."
My native tongue is Japanese, so I can't give you a good explanation on "Vibrator." I admit this. But, This Mari Akasaka's book will never let you down. Buy and read or, you will surely regret.
Format:Paperback
Very abstract and different. Can be quite difficult to understand the first time around -- needs a read or two to grasp the true concept of the book. A good read but not one I'd recommend to all.
Format:Paperback
Cutting through this short, punchy novel are themes we will all recognise - isolation, frustration, desire. The sparse but pacey translation delivers to the reader a sense of familiar unrest, whether it is frustration at work or a desire to be something more than we are.
Journalist Rei, losing a battle to keep her mind stable and herself sober, follows a 'vibration' that urges her to take off with a random trucker she spies at a convenience store. What follows is a stark and sexually charged road trip across wintry Japan which sees Rei's world dissolve and resolve as her volatile mental state rushes like street lights past a truck window.
Vibrator is a brief, explicit and honest portrayal of detachment and the difficulty inherent in fulfilling wishes not well understood.
Recommended.
Journalist Rei, losing a battle to keep her mind stable and herself sober, follows a 'vibration' that urges her to take off with a random trucker she spies at a convenience store. What follows is a stark and sexually charged road trip across wintry Japan which sees Rei's world dissolve and resolve as her volatile mental state rushes like street lights past a truck window.
Vibrator is a brief, explicit and honest portrayal of detachment and the difficulty inherent in fulfilling wishes not well understood.
Recommended.
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Failed to turn me on
Vibrator's bold cover is both confrontational and suggestive; unfortunately what lies inside is cheap titillation dressed-up as challenging prose. Later made into a (apparently! Read more
Published on 10 May 2009 by Captain Pugwash
"dirty realism" and "fairy tale" in one book?
There is a myth that truckers in Japan can pick up girls at their stops - which might sound like fun until you try to think of it from the girls point of view - surely they would... Read more
Published on 13 July 2007 by stevieby
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