by Taichi Yamada
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"The author, one of Japan's best scriptwriters, tells a story about what he knows best. This is an interesting glimpse into Japanese pop culture. His storyline is so poignant, so emotional, it will have you hoping every character will come out ahead." --" Heartland Reviews"
"Yamada has gained accolades from substantial writers such as David Mitchell and Bret Easton Ellis, but this novel is more a gentle entertainment than a serious psychic disturbance." - James Urquhart, "Daily Telegraph"
"(A) story that pens in spare strokes a portrait of urban alienation. (...) Less subtle, unfortunately, are the vagaries of the translation into American English. (...) What survives, however, is a memorably uncanny tapestry, and a powerful atmosphere, of heat and rain and sorrow." - Steven Poole, "The Guardian
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"Strangers is written with a clarity I have come to recognise as Japanese." - Kate Kellaway, "The Observer"
"Strangers is written with a tone that reveals great emotional discernment." - Peter Burnett, "Scotland on Sunday"
"What might have been a simple ghost story evolves into a psychologically acute portrait of a man unused to being cared for. (...) All of this manages to survive a poor translation that renders a delicate tale in clunking prose" - Patrick Ness, "Sunday Telegraph"
"Taichi Yamada's Strangers is a very efficient and chilling up-dating, to the 1980s (when it was written in Japanese), of a Noh-play-type story: of ghostly spirits filtering through into the living world, and of how the spirit must be put to rest by the living." - Anthony Thwaite, "Sunday Telegraph"
"As an exploration of the power of delusion, Strangers is not without interest. As aghost story, however, it is not very frightening." - William Skidelsky," Times Literary Supplement
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"Yamada has gained accolades from substantial writers such as David Mitchell and Bret Easton Ellis, but this novel is more a gentle entertainment than a serious psychic disturbance." - James Urquhart, "Daily Telegraph"
"(A) story that pens in spare strokes a portrait of urban alienation. (...) Less subtle, unfortunately, are the vagaries of the translation into American English. (...) What survives, however, is a memorably uncanny tapestry, and a powerful atmosphere, of heat and rain and sorrow." - Steven Poole, "The Guardian
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"Strangers is written with a clarity I have come to recognise as Japanese." - Kate Kellaway, "The Observer"
"Strangers is written with a tone that reveals great emotional discernment." - Peter Burnett, "Scotland on Sunday"
"What might have been a simple ghost story evolves into a psychologically acute portrait of a man unused to being cared for. (...) All of this manages to survive a poor translation that renders a delicate tale in clunking prose" - Patrick Ness, "Sunday Telegraph"
"Taichi Yamada's Strangers is a very efficient and chilling up-dating, to the 1980s (when it was written in Japanese), of a Noh-play-type story: of ghostly spirits filtering through into the living world, and of how the spirit must be put to rest by the living." - Anthony Thwaite, "Sunday Telegraph"
"As an exploration of the power of delusion, Strangers is not without interest. As aghost story, however, it is not very frightening." - William Skidelsky," Times Literary Supplement
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'Memorably uncanny … the powerful mood of Strangers lingers well after its graceful, downbeat ending has passed.'
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