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(*)(Translated by Philip Gabriel, 立松和平 [1947-2010]) (★)(Titulo original : 日高[Hidaka] ´NI-0566´ es mismo libro. ´Frozen Dreams´, a novel which has its source in a tragic real-life accident that took place in 1965, tells the story of a party of climbers on Japan´s famous Hidaka mountain range on Hokkaido. Despite warnings of imminent bad weather, six university students, members of a climbing club, attempt an ascent of the range´s highest peak, Mount Poroshiri --a fateful decision that costs lives as, while sleeping in a cave, they are caught in a devastating avalanche. Miraculously, one of the climbers survives for four days after his companions have perished. As he lies trapped in deep snow, half-frozen and drifting in and out of consciousness, powerless to help himself in the face of the extreme conditions and crushing isolation, the reader enters the young man´s mind as he revisits his past and imagines the future while death creeps upon him. A masterpiece of mountaineering literature, and a bestseller in Japan, this is Tatematsu´s most widely read novel, now available for the first time in English. Specially selected for the Japanese Literature Publishing Project (JLPP)) |
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