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Edge: A Novel

Edge: A Novel Hardcover - 2012

by Koji Suzuki; (Camellia Nieh and Jonathan Lloyd-Davies , trans.)

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New York: Vertical, 2012. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First American edition and first edition in English translation. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 382 pp. with bibliography. The author of the "Ring" trilogy reaches a new level of terror in this apocalyptic work that casts the very earth and skies into doubt. When a team of American scientists test new computer hardware by calculating the value of pi into the deep decimals, figures being to repeat a pattern where none should exist. Suddenly, people on the west coast of the U.S. start disappearing.
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  • Title Edge: A Novel
  • Author Koji Suzuki; (Camellia Nieh and Jonathan Lloyd-Davies , trans.)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First American edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vertical, New York
  • Date 2012
  • Bookseller's Inventory # E28250
  • ISBN 9781934287385 / 1934287385
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.3 in (21.59 x 14.73 x 3.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Horror fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011277893
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

Koji Suzuki was born in 1957 in Hamamatsu, southwest of Tokyo. He attended Keio University where he majored in French. After graduating he held numerous odd jobs, including a stint as a cram school teacher. Also a self-described jock, he holds a first-class yachting license and crossed the U.S., from Key West to Los Angeles, on his motorcycle.The father of two daughters, Suzuki is a respected authority on childrearing and has written numerous works on the subject. He acquired his expertise when he was a struggling writer and househusband. Suzuki also has translated a children's book into Japanese, The Little Sod Diaries by the crime novelist Simon Brett.In 1990, Suzuki's first full-length work, Paradise won the Japanese Fantasy Novel Award and launched his career as a fiction writer. Ring, written with a baby on his lap, catapulted him to fame, and the multi-million selling sequels Spiral and Loop cemented his reputation as a world-class talent. Often called the "Stephen King of Japan," Suzuki has played a crucial role in establishing mainstream credentials for horror novels in his country. He is based in Tokyo but loves to travel, often in the United States. Birthday is his sixth novel to appear in English.

Media reviews

"For anyone who's read author Koji Suzuki's Ring, you'll know that the author is less concerned with jolting you using sudden shocks or abrupt, violent scenarios; instead, Suzuki has a thing for gradually tilting the world for his characters and the reader, shifting the rules ever so slightly so that the certainties of our science can no longer be trusted... Edge, which sees the author at his most instructive, the book acting at times as a brief(ish) treatise on nothing so much as the history since the Big Bang, the evolution of mankind, the fragility of our math, and all tied into the abrupt disappearance of a suburban Japanese family. As apocalypses go, this is an inventive one, and although Edge won't have you leaving the lights on out of fear of the dark, Suzuki's novel (which mixes that genre with sci-fi, journalism, and a little bit of reality TV) will probably have you keeping the lights on picking through some of the works in his extensively-sourced bibliography." - MTV.com

"Suzuki is called the Stephen King of his country, but that's not really accurate; King isn't nearly as adept at creating complex characters, explaining scientific principles or writing the kind of dialogue that might actually be spoken by humans." - Las Vegas Mercury

"...Suzuki is plowing a path that nobody else has traveled, ..." - Agony Columns

About the author

Koji Suzuki was born in 1957 in Hamamatsu, southwest of Tokyo. He attended Keio University where he majored in French. After graduating he held numerous odd jobs, including a stint as a cram school teacher. Also a self-described jock, he holds a first-class yachting license and crossed the U.S., from Key West to Los Angeles, on his motorcycle.

The father of two daughters, Suzuki is a respected authority on childrearing and has written numerous works on the subject. He acquired his expertise when he was a struggling writer and househusband. Suzuki also has translated a children's book into Japanese, The Little Sod Diaries by the crime novelist Simon Brett.

In 1990, Suzuki's first full-length work, Paradise won the Japanese Fantasy Novel Award and launched his career as a fiction writer. Ring, written with a baby on his lap, catapulted him to fame, and the multi-million selling sequels Spiral and Loop cemented his reputation as a world-class talent. Often called the "Stephen King of Japan," Suzuki has played a crucial role in establishing mainstream credentials for horror novels in his country. He is based in Tokyo but loves to travel, often in the United States.

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