β Hoshino, Tomoyuki; Hoshino, Tomoyuki
π Fiction
π
2017
π Akashic Books
π English
β 156 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
ME: A Novel
β Scribed by Tomoyuki Hoshino
- Publisher
- Akashic Books
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 156 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 161775448X
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β¦ Synopsis
"There's speculative fiction that imagines other worlds and alternate realities, and then there's the kind that unsettles us precisely by its slight tweaking of everyday situations. ME is the perfect example of the latter. When the narrator engages in a common telephone scam, he suddenly finds himself inhabiting a new identity. No one seems to notice that he and others have switched families, as if the switch itself had never happened. A strange, unnerving story set in contemporary Japan."
--Tor.com
"Mr. Hoshino's superb talent allows for a development of the richly imaginative details that is completely natural, without any hint of forced contrivances . . . There is a clear distinction to be seen here between ME and the sort of television drama or potboiler fiction already available that take up telephone fraud as a social topic. Nor does the novel allow itself to slip into simplistic allegory. The weight of reality it creates reflects the...
β¦ Subjects
A Novel
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