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Title: Sayonara, Gangsters by Genichiro Takahashi, Michael Emmerich ISBN: 1-932234-05-5 Publisher: Veritcal Pub. Date: 01 May, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a definite must read
Comment: i read this book last weekend, in one sitting. once you start, you won't want to put it down. and once you do put it down, it will stay with you for a long time, different parts echoing in your head. it's an incredibly funny book, but funny with pathos, threaded with an immense sadness. it's also incredibly timely, and very politically oriented in a wacky, all-over-the-place kind of a way. as jonathan safran foer says in his blurb on the back, it's a book that can't really be described. you just have to read it. i promise you won't regret it.
Rating: 5
Summary: WOW!
Comment: I have never read anything like this book, and I doubt I'll ever have a chance to read anything like it again---at least not until I go back and reread it. And I know I will. Many, many times.
Certain sections and scenes, especially in the second part, and the quirky/sad/hilarious/devastating language in which this book is written keep echoing through my head, so that I actually feel like carrying this book around with me to take out for a moment on the subway or in the elevator on my way up to the office. I want to have it on hand when I need it.
This is the kind of book I NEEDED right now. The whole thing with the "gangsters" and the speech by the President of the United States at the beginning and the feeling of despair at being unable to make things happen resonate with what we are going through right now in the US in a way that is absolutely eery and astonishing, considering that the book was first published in Japan in 1982.
I heard Takahashi read in March. I went on a whim because I saw the event listed in The Village Voice. And even though I couldn't understand his Japanese and had no idea WHAT he was saying until the translator, Michael Emmerich, read his English version (which is incredible!), I still GOT something out of the Japanese-language part of the program. I got the sense that THIS GUY IS THE REAL THING. His voice was tingling with energy. I don't know why it took so long for this book to be translated (maybe the right translator just never came along until now? I certainly have never read any translation like this), but I know that I want to read more. Right now this book is the only one available; fortunately, it's the sort of "novel" that will be completely new next time. If you still haven't had the fantastic, heart-wrenching, hilarious experience of reading it, order it. Right now. I promise you, it's just what you need.
If you were a friend of mine, I'd give you a copy of Sayonara, Gangsters. That's how good this book is.
Rating: 5
Summary: amazing
Comment: a collection of absurdist sketches and/or short meditations with almost no plot, few characters save the narrator, and endless references to milestones in literary history shouldn't really amount to an amazing novel. and yet genichiro does it, and effortlessly (aided no doubt by the excellent translation by michael emmerich; i am familiar with some of the original and translating this book is no easy feat). a super fast and intensely thought provoking read, crystal clear in its reserved ambiguity.
just read it.
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Title: Ashes by Kenzo Kitakata, Emi Shimokawa ISBN: 1932234020 Publisher: Veritcal Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Ring by Koji Suzuki, Robert B. Rohmer, Glynne Walley ISBN: 1932234004 Publisher: Veritcal Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Outlet by Randy Taguchi, Glynne Walley ISBN: 1932234047 Publisher: Veritcal Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Strangers by Taichi Yamada, Wayne P. Lammers ISBN: 1932234039 Publisher: Veritcal Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Spiral by Koji Suzuki, Glynne Wolley, Glynne Walley ISBN: 1932234063 Publisher: Veritcal Pub. Date: 01 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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