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Mo Hayder: The Devil of Nanking

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Materiaali: Pokkari
Kustantaja: Grove Press
Kieli: englanti
ISBN: 9780802122193

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Katseltu: 118 krt
Suosituksia: 1 kpl

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Dazzling […] In this extremely creepy book, Hayder s third, the diabolically gifted British author spins a fascinating mystery from the legacy of Japanese atrocities during World War II. 'Entertainment Weekly' A haunting, lyrical, disturbing, important, suspenseful, wonderfully written and beautiful book. You will love reading it, and you will not soon forget the experience. Harlan Coben Grey has a lot to prove and even more to hide. A young Englishwoman obsessed with a past she cannot understand, she has come to Tokyo following rumors of a rare piece of film footage shot during the notorious Nanking Massacre in 1937, which has been lost for decades. But the only man who can help, a survivor of the massacre and now a visiting professor at a prestigious Tokyo university, will have nothing to do with her. Increasingly desperate in an alien city, Grey accepts a job as a hostess in an upmarket nightspot catering to Japanese businessmen and wealthy yakuza, where one gangsteran old man in a wheelchair surrounded by a terrifying entourage, rumored to rely on a powerful elixir for his continued healthmight be the key to the answers Grey seeks. Taut and gritty, with the redolent atmosphere of Ian Rankin and the spine-tingling characters of Thomas Harris, 'The Devil of Nanking' is a tour de force that confirms Mo Hayder as a thriller writer of the first order. Wrenching […] A beautifully controlled thriller about culture clash […] Scary. Douglas Wolk, 'The New York Times Book Review' There is a terrible beauty to both narratives as they unfold toward an agonizing but inevitable conclusion, with the two stories dovetailing exquisitely […] 'The Devil of Nanking' just may be one of the best books of the year. Tom and Enid Schantz, 'The Denver Post ''