Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon’s neighbor-who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture. And while the surgeon’s jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. The stories intertwine in a haunting, dreamy, horrific narrative evoking the raw and universal need for love.Īn aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. This is also the story of a young girl, Nami, who has lost her memories and cannot seem to live up to the expectations of those around her. Desperate to make the girl happy, the raven brings her more and more eyeballs. He brings her eyeballs he steals from other people, and when she puts them in her eye sockets, she sees memories from their original owners. And they don’t want to stop the killers-Morino and her friend simply want to understand them.Ī raven who has learned to speak from watching movies befriends a young girl whose eyes were ruined in a freak accident. She and her schoolmate will go to any length to investigate the murders, even putting their own bodies on the line. Morino is the strangest girl in school-how could she not be, given her obsession with brutal murders? And there are plenty of murders to grow obsessed with, as the town in which she lives is a magnet for serial killers. It is many things but a simple story, too. Literary fiction with prepubescent innocence and manga sensibilities. It defies the conventional definition of genres. This is a little girl’s account of her life after death, and our unique version of The Lovely Bones. Otsuichi – Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse Let one of Japan’s brightest young authors into your mind. Creepy, funny, strange, and sad, these stories will fire up your imagination. These are some of the stories in Otsuichi’s ZOO. An abused boy builds a house in the woods out of dead bodies.
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