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Hell (Hardcover)

by Yasutaka Tsutsui (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 300 pages
  • Publisher: Alma Books (2 Aug 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1846880378
  • ISBN-13: 978-1846880377
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 841,236 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The nice thing about Tsutsui is that history and modernity combine effortlessly, as do drab reality and fantasy --The Daily Telegraph


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The hell in Japanese writer Yasutaka Tsutsui*s surrealist novella is not the conventional fire and brimstone version. In fact this hell is not very dissimilar to the world that the inhabitants have just left.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Intertwined destinies that end in hell, 1 Aug 2009
This review is from: Hell (Paperback)
As the name suggests, it is a story about hell, or to be exact it is a collection of connected lives, all which end up in hell. This is not to say that they are all bad people, on the contrary. Most of them are just ordinary people with their own faults and ups and downs. It is not the conventional western hell as it would be described by Dante for example. I suppose it is more Japanese version, but it does makes sense. Maybe it lacks the concrete fire and the suffering always so present in western hells, but the Japanese do have a different view on life and death.

there is no conventional plot. There is no story as such. The underlying theme is the lives of the characters, how they are intertwined, how they lived, how they died and their experiences in hell. Each of which unfolds to the reader in no particular order as the story jumps between the different characters and moments constantly. One moment you're reading about someone in hell, and the next about someones childhood. Time isn't as sequential as we consider it to be in west.

The characters are very life like, as you get to know them; little by little. All very different from each other and each with their own faults.

It is a fascinating story, with slightly dark undertone as the name suggests, but it's not horror nor is it overly sad, just well a told story. The underlying Japanese language is still visible in some places in the text, but the translation is good; slightly better than for example in Paprika, another book written by Tsutsui. It's not overly long novel, but somehow it manages to tell the the life stories of quite few people in great details. Gives you something to think about.

Well recommended, especially if your interested in Japanese culture.
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