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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Bargain @ $1.99 from Soho Press, who have rotated their usually monthly offerings (couponable/VIP-discountable in Canada but not the US, should be the same price at all the other retailers in North America):
- The Thief by Japanese author Fuminori Nakamura (SYKM, Wikipedia). A literary noir crime thriller which won him the 2010 Kenzaburō Ōe Prize in its original Japanese. SYKM says this is the first in a set with a particular recurring character. At Kobo UK, this is priced at £1.99 from Little, Brown & Co.'s Corsair imprint.
- Getaway by Lisa Brackmann (SYKM), a vacation thriller where everything seems to go wrong for a newly-widowed woman who finds herself mixing up with the wrong crowd while trying to get away from it all. SYKM says this was also published as Day of the Dead under the variant credit of Lisa Brackman with one-N, and has a recently-written sequel.
- Converging Parallels by British author Timothy Williams (SYKM, Wikipedia), 1st in his Piero Trotti series starring a police commissioner in Northern Italy. SYKM says this was a finalist for the 1982 New Blood Dagger Award. This is £1.82 at Kobo UK, which seems a decent price (the sequels are £5.39 each); rights to most of Soho's series are owned by other imprints there.
They don't seem to have any tie-in sales for further works by the same authors this time around, but maybe they'll add some later. |
Thank you for turning me on to an absolutely wonderful
LITERARY author,
Fuminori Nakamura. Based on your listing, I looked this over and purchased it and have now finished it.
Are you tired of reading genre fiction like the one below?
Scardlorgh Regneigh, of Sorfeld Valley, sheathed his short Burerd sword - and what a story that would be, Scardlorgh Regneigh thought, if only I had the time to tell it - a sword sharp and ridged and meant to decapitate the roaming Llurdsrogs who systematically plundered the Sorfeld Valley, as well as the surrounding country-side. The peaceful Grrrgss - short and dumpy though they might be and in possession of rolling wheels instead of legs and feet - were often the target by roaming bands of Llurdsrogs.
"What Ho! What be this?" Scardlorgh said in a high-pitched voice to no one particular, although he sometimes wondered if the land had ears.
Tired of reading that kind of crap, from crappy, lazy authors? -- Well, I am (even though I wrote it).
GIVE ME SOME LITERATURE!
If you're ready to put away your toys and clean your room, then I can highly recommend author
Fuminori Nakamura.
(And by the way, my room is clean, except for a putrid zombie or two lying in the corner.)