Evil and the Mask
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نقد و بررسی
Kirby Heyborne's powerful performance conveys a sense of foreboding and spine-tingling electricity to award-winning Japanese novelist Nakamura's second novel. When he is 11 years old, Fumihiro Kuki's father tells him he created him to be "a cancer on the world." His father warns that on his fourteenth birthday he will do something so terrible to Fumihiro's adopted sister, Kaori, that it will destroy Fumihiro's faith in humankind and turn him into a depraved monster. As the boy plots and executes the perfect crime, Heyborne's pacing is spot-on and his tone is just creepy enough to keep listeners riveted. Heyborne delivers each moment of the complex story with conviction, drawing listeners into Fumihiro's lifelong attempts to free himself from his father's curse. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine
April 29, 2013
At the outset of this bleak, melancholy stand-alone from Nakamura (The Thief), 11-year-old Fumihiro Kuki learns from his father, Shozo, that he’s next in the family dynasty to become “a personification of evil.” Fumihiro is to become not just a mere assassin but a true monster: someone able to foment civil war in a small country, sell arms to both sides, and then rebuild the nation’s infrastructure using the Kuki family’s strong military-industrial ties. Shozo threatens to debauch Kaori, Fumihiro’s beloved adopted sister, if he doesn’t cooperate. Fumihiro’s subsequent obsession with and desire to protect Kaori, his ideal of goodness and purity, forms the crux of this novel that deals with basic questions of good and evil, guilt and remorse. Cryptic detectives, smoky nightclubs, and murky streets in Japanese suburbs add to the noir sensibility. At times bizarre, at times hallucinatory, the story is always provocative.
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