Body
  • Published: 15 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9781934287378
  • Imprint: Vertical Inc
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $26.99

Body

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In 2006, Asa Nonami received widespread acclaim for her police procedural, The Hunter. Her second English-translated work--the psychological horror, Now You're One of Us--was published by Vertical in 2007, receiving additional positive reviews. This third work--the first of Nonami's short-story collections--is also horror, without the gore, the monsters or the serial killers. It is firmly "realist" like the author's preceding outing.

As indicated by the title, Bødy is a collection of horror stories, all thematically linked to people's perception of their bodies, and the consequences of vanity and low self-esteem. In the vein of the psychological suspense of the Twilight Zone, each story ends with a shock, leaving the reader unsettled with the old adage, "Be careful what you wish for," echoing in their bones.

Appropriately, each of the five stories in Bødy gets its title from the body parts featured, buttocks, blood, face, hair and chin.
  • Published: 15 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9781934287378
  • Imprint: Vertical Inc
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $26.99
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PRAISE FOR NOW YOU'RE ONE OF US:

"Asa Nonami's Now You're One of Us does for marriage what Jaws did for a day at the beach, and males and females alike will surely get a chill out of it." --Joe B. Mauceri, fearsmag.com

"At first, Now You're One Of Us ambles along like one of Yasujiro Ozu's movies about Japanese home life, a drama of manners about marriage and extended families. Then it reveals its real subject by degrees--how a cult mind-set works to seduce outsiders and break their resistance--and it goes from Ozu coziness to full-blown Takashi Miike madness. In a good way, that is." --Serdar Yegulalp, www.thegline.com

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