Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse
By (Author) Otsuichi
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
Haikasoru
21st September 2010
United States
Classifications
General
Fiction
741.5952
Physical Properties
Paperback
360
Width 133mm, Height 203mm, Spine 25mm
333g
Description
Two short novels, including the title story and Black Fairy Tale, plus a bonus short story. Summer is the simple story of a nine-year-old girl who dies while on summer vacation. While her youthful killers try to hide her body, she tells us the story--from the point of view of her dead body--of the children's attempt to get away with murder.
Black Fairy Tale is classic J-horror: a young girl loses an eye in an accident but receives a transplant. Now she can see again, but what she sees out of her new left eye is the experiences and memories of its previous owner. Its previous deceased owner.
Author Bio
Born 1978 in Fukuoka, Otsuichi won the Sixth Jump Short Fiction/Nonfiction Prize when he was seventeen with his debut story "Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse." Now recognized as one of the most talented young fantasy/horror writers in Japan, his other English-language works include the short story collections Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse/Black Fairy Tale, and ZOO (Haikasoru). Goth won the Honkaku Mystery Award and was adapted into a feature film starring Rin Takanashi.
