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(★)(筒井康孝／ Translated by Adam Kabat／ Titulo original : 家族八景 [Kazoku Hakkei]／ If a beautiful, well-educated, well-bred young woman chooses to work as a maid, there has to be a hidden reason --especially when it seems that almost every other eighteen-year-old girl in modern Japan is living a carefree life of ease. Nanase´s secret is simple, but deadly : she reads minds. She reads minds with such clarity that she thinks people have spoken what they´ve only thought. But discovery of her psychic abilities, Nanase knows, means turning her life into a freak show --a fate she dreads more than anything else. As a live-in maid, Nanase believes she can hide, but it is precisely because she is psychic that trouble always follows. With her knowledge of the private lives and innermost thoughts of the people she lives with, Nanase is inevitably drawn into the tackiness of life she has run from. From the father and son who are sleeping with the same bar hostess, to the family with a stench so strong they cannot smell it, to the early-retired gentleman who thinks that to rape her is to regain his youth, to the nagging mother´s death screams that will not go away, ... there is enough pettiness, greed, lust, and horror for all. Here is a look into the workings of ´the Japanese mind´ such as one will not have imagined before! ／ ◆Yasutaka Tsutsui, whose novels seem to blend science fiction and mystery with the occult and the paranormal, commands an exceedingly loyal reading public in Japan. What The Maid Saw is his best-known work, proving so successful that Tsutsui has written two subsequent collections of Maid tales. A graduate of Doshisha University with a degree in psychology, Tsutsui makes his home in Kobe. This is his first work to appear in English.) |
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