Chopsticks

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Del i serien Harvill

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Beskrivning

A student found dead with chopsticks through his eyes. A ghost bride determined to get her revenge. A curse that refuses to die.In a quiet Japanese town, Amemiya grows fascinated with a new classmate. Every lunchtime Neko stabs his chopsticks upright in his bowl of rice, like a funeral offering. He confides that he is undertaking the forbidden Lord Chopsticks ritual, where after eighty-four days his greatest wish should be granted. Amemiya starts the ritual too, without realising that Lord Chopsticks demands a terrifying price.In Taiwan, Big Six’s experience of a hex residing in a pair of coral chopsticks at first seems unrelated, as does the livestreamed death of Laila’s boyfriend in Hong Kong, which causes an online frenzy around the urban legend of the vengeful Ghost Bride. But a darker force is at work than just coincidence, one that connects to the disappearance of a whole class of schoolchildren near Jiuji Mountain forty years ago. As the mysteries start to unravel, a picture emerges of a curse that stretches across countries and decades.In Chopsticks, five of East Asia’s most acclaimed writers weave together a haunting novel of desire, folklore and malice — where every wish carries a deadly cost.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2027-01-14
Mått:153 x 234 x 40 mm
Vikt:700 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Harvill
Antal sidor:490
Förlag:Vintage Publishing
ISBN:9781787305564
Översättare:Joshua Dyer, Jacqueline Leung

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Mitsuda Shinzou (Author) A long-time aficionado of horror films and novels, Japanese author Mitsuda Shinzo is known for stories that imbue horror and local folklore into the crime fiction genre. His Tojio Genya series of stories have earned him a wide readership across many age groups, as well as multiple prize nominations. His novel Like a Sinking Water Demon won the tenth Honkaku Mystery Award.Xerses (Author) Xerses has worked in a variety of genres, including mystery, martial arts, and speculative fiction. Xerses debuted in 2013 with Lotus of the Same Fate, winning the Bronze Award at the Kadokawa Light Novel Awards, followed by recognition for the martial arts novel Immortal Bird. In 2015, Xerses’ mystery novel H.A. was a finalist for the Shiomida Shosuke Mystery Novel Award, and in 2020, the epic novel K.I.N.G.: Natural Disaster Response Center was nominated for the Taipei International Book Exhibition Grand Prize.JeTauZi (Author) Author, intercultural studies specialist, and confirmed cat lady, JeTauZi has written novels, stories, and scripts for children’s TV shows and mobile games. In 2011, her fantasy story “The Spirit of the Word” won a bronze medal in the Kadokawa Fiction Awards. She’s written multiple long novels in several genres, including detective fiction and horror.Xiao Xiang Shen (Author) Novelist and VR game designer Xiao Xiang Shen is a member of Taipei Legend Studio and an avid researcher of local folklore whose work brings the mystical side of urban spaces to life. His short story “Taipei Scrolls” won a bronze medal at the Kadokawa Fiction Awards in 2012, as well as the King Car Fantasy Fiction Prize in 2014. He has written multiple novels set in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation, as well as a reference manual of creatures from Taiwanese folklore which became the basis for a well-known virtual reality game.Chan Ho-Kei (Author) Chan Ho-Kei was born and raised in Hong Kong. He has worked as software engineer, scriptwriter, game designer, and editor of comic magazines. His writing career started in 2008 at the age of thirty-three, with the short story “The Case of Jack and the Beanstalk”, which was shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of Taiwan Award. He went on to win the award again the following year with “The Locked Room of Bluebeard”. In 2011, Chan’s first novel, The Man Who Sold the World, won the Soji Shimada Mystery Award. His subsequent works, including The Borrowed, have been translated into multiple languages, include English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Dutch, Italian, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, and Hebrew.

Recensioner i media

In this novel, chopsticks serve as a totem, continuously being used and constantly presenting new meanings. They are weapons, doors, rituals, taboos, and also a medium.