Ring
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Publisher Description
Ceux qui regardent ces images sont condamnés à mourir dans une semaine, exactement à la même heure... Kazayuki Asakawa déglutit, les yeux rivés sur l'écran de télévision. Au fond de lui-même, il sait que c'est vrai, que ce n'est ni une plaisanterie, ni une menace en l'air.
Il sait que les quatre adolescents, dont sa propre nièce, qui ont regardé ensemble la cassette vidéo avant lui sont morts. S'il veut survivre, il lui faut comprendre...
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.
Customer Reviews
French Version
A little disappointed and perturbed that I was scammed into buying the French version of a novel I was pretty excited to read. I think more needs to be done on the ebooks marketplace to differentiate between foreign language versions of books. From now on I’ll be sure to download the sample before I buy the complete version.