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(*)(Translated by Charles De Wolf) (★)(´NI-0542´es mismo libro. Titulo original : Yume no shima, 1985 [夢の島] 1.Though it has a lovely name, the real ´Isle of Dreams´ is a hunk of reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay where the city dumps its garbage... and yet, Shozo Sakai, a middle-aged widower, does indeed find the place beautiful : gravitating more and more, since the death of his wife, toward the isle´s massive piles of trash. One day, however, his refuge is invaded by Yoko, a mysterious woman in black, who visits the isle on her motorcycle for no other reason than to trat it as her own private obstacle course. Soon Yoko has lured Sakai away from his garbage-paradise, leading him back into a Tokyo far less benign than the things it´s thrown away. Acclaimed on its first publication, ´Isle of Dreams´ is a sinister satire on urban decay. 2.Keizo Hino [1929-2002] was born in Tokyo and accompanied his parents to Korea while the country was under Japanese control. After his return to Japan, he worked as a foreign correspondent for Yomiuri Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper. He later wrote several novels, his work being compared to that of I.G. Ballard.) |
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