Paradise - Koji Suzuki

The first book by the author of the oft-adapted international horror hit Ring (2003) is a millennia-spanning saga-cum-romance based on the Bering "land-bridge" theory of prehistoric migration from Siberia to North America. The book's first part, "Legend," traces the paths of separated lovers whose emblems of leaping red deer mark their trails. "Paradise" leaps to the eighteenth century and an English sailor shipwrecked on a South Pacific island who falls in love with a native girl descended from one of the ancient lovers; she sees a godhead in the same deer image. In the late twentieth century in "The Desert," a composer said to be "a Casanova with Indian blood"--a further descendant from the prehistoric lover who crossed the land-bridge--undertakes a mystical journey below the Arizona sands. Suzuki won the Japan Fantasy Novel Award for this book.  

tytuł oryginału

Rakuen

data wydania

26 września 2006

ISBN

978-1932234237

liczba stron

288

język

angielski