From Publishers Weekly
In this short, tense and brutally eloquent thriller from Japanese author Murakami (In the Miso Soup), Kawashima Masayuki, a young urban professional, faces the terrible fear he will stab his baby daughter, Rie, just as he once stabbed the stripper he lived with when he was 19. He decides killing a young prostitute will alleviate the building pressure inside him and protect both Rie and his sweet wife, Yoko. He plans everything meticulously, but what he doesn't bargain for is that his intended victim, Sanada Chiaki, an s&m worker, is as disturbed as he is. During their appointment, Chiaki experiences a "Nightmare" episode that results in a twisted game of cat-and-mouse. Murakami doesn't waste a word or a movement in this near-haiku of a tale that's breathless with anxiety and fraught with pain. (Apr.)
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Added to the Japanese bookbox.

This is a great book! Cruel, strange and fascinating. I'll hope to read it again, and I will see if I can take the book to a youth hostel in Japan, next year. Or may be to Sweden.

I give this book to Piiaksi, who will add it to the bookbox 'nieuwe deugdzaamheid' (= new virtuousness).

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Voor de bloosdoos.

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Gaat mee met de bloosdoos.

Ik haal hem uit de bloosdoos. Ik pak hem eruit, omdat ik de auteursnaam herken en de voorpagina heel apart vind.

Interesting short book about two very disturbed persons. Fascinating. I am going to send it to HI77, whom I tagged it with.

Off to HI77, because I tagged him with this book. Enjoy!

When lullabies

turn into a wet rose,
beauty is a fallacy.