Ring
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Eerst sterft er één meisje, dan blijkt een vriend van haar ook te zijn omgekomen. De doodsoorzaak is in beide gevallen een hartaanval. Wanneer er nog twee dode tieners worden gevonden, komt journalist Kazuyuki Asakawa bij toeval achter het verband tussen de sterfgevallen. De jongeren zijn alle vier op precies hetzelfde tijdstip gestorven met een blik van doodsangst op hun gezicht. Kazuyuki's onderzoek leidt naar een vakantiepark waar de vier precies een week voor hun dood een videoband hebben bekeken.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The success of the 2002 American movie The Ring, a remake of Hideo Nakata's Ringu, has excited interest both in the original film and in the novel on which it's based. The plot will be familiar to the movie's many fans: a reporter, Asakawa, connects the death of his niece to the deaths of three other high school students. During his investigation, he discovers a videotape with a terrible warning: "Those who view these images are fated to die at this exact moment one week from now." With the aid of a friend, Asakawa traces the video to an alleged psychic and her daughter, Sadako. As in a classic ghost story, fate singles out one, often innocent character as a scapegoat. But the misogynistic society that persecutes Sadako and her mother must ultimately bear witness to its sin or perish. Despite a somewhat pedestrian and unintentionally comic prose style that seems derived from manga comics ("Ryuji was right. Men could not bear children"), fans of the movie won't be disappointed. Anyone curious in how the Japanese see themselves will find this book a fascinating, and ultimately highly disturbing, experience.
