Ring (Paperback)
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Ring (Paperback)

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Paperback 400 Pages
Published: 04/10/2010
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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.

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007240135
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 271 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 28 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

‘The pace doesn't slacken for a moment … a guaranteed page-turner’ Observer ‘Suzuki builds tension brilliantly’ Guardian ‘Bristles with menace and fear’ Uncut ‘The translation is wonderful, the spare and sleek prose making for an easy read, while the dark currents of the story build up to a mind-boggling climax’ Outland

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Emma Prince at Portsmouth

“Unsettling and brilliant.”

Having watched the American version of the film I was not quite sure what to expect from this novel. It is an interesting descent into horror as Suzuki builds his suspense and narrative gradually and his characters... More

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“Ring”

I read this book about a week after watching the recent remake, and I found the book to be FAR better. Although the plot is hard to follow at times, the book is amazing overall.If you're looking for a pacey... More

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