Kadokawa Shoten, 1995 330pp. Text in Japanese. Spine is slightly cocked. Tips and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Lower edge of boards have small bumped spots. Edges of dust jacket have light creases. Tips and spine ends have creases. Lower tip of rear flap fold has a small tear. Old bookstore sticker over a portion of the barcode. Spine edges and flap folds are rubbed. Text is unmarked. . Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Minus Jacket.

Synopsis

Stunning Japanese thriller with a chilling supernatural twist. The novel that inspired the cult Japanese movie and the Hollywood blockbuster of the same name.Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspaper's weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesn't take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies suddenly – until a chance conversation reveals that another healthy teenager died at exactly the same time, in chillingly similar circumstances.Sensing a story, Asakawa begins to investigate, and soon discovers that this strange simultaneous sudden-death syndrome also affected another two teenagers. Exactly one week before their mysterious deaths the four teenagers all spent the night at a leisure resort in the same log cabin.When Asakawa visits the resort, the mystery only deepens. A comment made in the guest book by one of the teenagers leads him to a particular vidoetape with a portentous message at the end:Those who have viewed these images are fated to die at this exact hour one week from now.Asakawa finds himself in a race against time – he has only seven days to find the cause of the teenagers' deaths before it finds him. The hunt puts him on the trail of an apocalytpic power that will force Asakawa to choose between saving his family and saving civilization.

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Bookseller: Recycled Records and Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 31211
Title: Ring [Japanese Edition]
Author: Suzuki, Koji
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good Plus
Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus Jacket
ISBN 10: 4048726455
ISBN 13: 9784048726450
Publisher: Kadokawa Shoten
Date Published: 1995
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction: Horror and Gothic;

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