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Carregando... The Aosawa Murdersde Riku Onda
   Crime (49) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  MXMLLN | Jan 12, 2024 |    ) mmcrawford | Dec 5, 2023 |  ) maddietherobot | Oct 21, 2023 | Onda reconstructs this event through the recollections of a range of people affected by the event, mostly from the distance of many years. While a perpetrator was identified and the case closed, his suicide left a lot of people unconvinced, including some of the police. Family friends, servants, detectives, casual acquaintances and other people peripherally involved in the event add their memories to Onda's story, which builds in a Rashomon-like fashion to its conclusion. This is a slow-burn narrative that takes a bit of work from the reader, and rewards careful attention. It's not a book for people who like everything explained; Onda manages to preserve a sense of foreboding and mystery throughout her story, right to the end. (  ) gjky | Apr 9, 2023 | I struggled with this one. I respected Riku Onda's attempt to write a more meta kind of murder mystery which explores the relationship of readers to murder mysteries/fictional murderers. But I think for the novel to have been successful, Onda's characterisation needed to be stronger. I never particularly bought the characters presented here as fully fleshed-out people, or found myself all that invested in the solution (such as it was) to what happened. There's ambiguity and there's obscurantism, and I felt that the Aosawa Murders was too much the latter. I also found myself dubious about how Onda depicted both blindness and mental illness. (  ) siriaeve | Apr 3, 2023 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Fiction.
Mystery.
Thriller.
Selected by NYT as one of MOST NOTABLE BOOKS of 2020. On a stormy summer day the Aosawas, owners of a prominent local hospital, host a large birthday party. The occasion turns into tragedy when 17 people die from cyanide in their drinks. The only surviving links to what might have happened are a cryptic verse that could be the killer's, and the physician's bewitching blind daughter, Hisako, the only person spared injury. But the youth who emerges as the prime suspect commits suicide that October, effectively sealing his guilt while consigning his motives to mystery. The police are convinced that Hisako had a role in the crime, as are many in the town, including the author of a bestselling book about the murders written a decade after the incident, who was herself a childhood friend of Hisako' and witness to the discovery of the murders. The truth is revealed through a skilful juggling of testimony by different voices: family members, witnesses and neighbours, police investigators and of course the mesmerizing Hisako herself. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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 Google Books — Carregando...GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)895.636Literature Literature of other languages Asian (east and south east) languages Japanese Japanese fiction 2000–Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia: (3.59)
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Characters: 10
Setting: 8.5
Prose: 8
BEST novel I've read since 2019 (42 months) and one of the most impressionable books of MY LIFETIME.
With a breathtaking, complex plot, Onda's masterpiece intertwines memories with the traumatic events of our lives. Forewarning though: The book is written in one-sided first person. The reader only hears the spoken voice of the each chapter's lead character. (