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Deep Red
Deep Red is a novel about anger, of the slow burn and the itch for violence, and the unexpected places that fury can take us.
Sixth grader Kanako was looking forward to her school trip, and she sure is enjoying it. At night, as she and her friends exchange scary stories after lights-out, her teacher barges into their room to summon her. Yet he seems more solicitous than scolding, and when he asks her to pack her things so he can take her back to Tokyo in a cab, Kanako realizes that something terrible has happened to her family.
Educational supplies salesman Norio Tsuzuki was bamboozled into co-signing a fraudulent loan agreement by a business relation of his to whom he couldn’t say no. Enticed by the unscrupulous entrepreneur to recover the sum by unethical means, Tsuzuki indeed descends into criminality—by brutally murdering the man and his family. The only survivor, a daughter the same age as Tsuzuki’s own, just happened to be away on a school trip…
When the orphaned Kanako grows up into a young woman, she cannot but feel vengeful toward Miho, the fiend’s daughter, and seeks her out under false pretenses. What follows is a memorable waltz of two unmoored souls.
Sixth grader Kanako was looking forward to her school trip, and she sure is enjoying it. At night, as she and her friends exchange scary stories after lights-out, her teacher barges into their room to summon her. Yet he seems more solicitous than scolding, and when he asks her to pack her things so he can take her back to Tokyo in a cab, Kanako realizes that something terrible has happened to her family.
Educational supplies salesman Norio Tsuzuki was bamboozled into co-signing a fraudulent loan agreement by a business relation of his to whom he couldn’t say no. Enticed by the unscrupulous entrepreneur to recover the sum by unethical means, Tsuzuki indeed descends into criminality—by brutally murdering the man and his family. The only survivor, a daughter the same age as Tsuzuki’s own, just happened to be away on a school trip…
When the orphaned Kanako grows up into a young woman, she cannot but feel vengeful toward Miho, the fiend’s daughter, and seeks her out under false pretenses. What follows is a memorable waltz of two unmoored souls.
284 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 2000
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July 11, 2025
مردی برای انتقام گرفتن، کل اعضای خانواده‌ای به جز دخترشون رو می‌کُشه و داستان راجع به رویارویی دختر قاتل و قربانیه. در واقع چندان به بُعد جنایی داستان پرداخته نمیشه و بیشتر مربوط به تروما و زندگی این دو دختر پس از حادثه‌ست.
اگه نویسنده‌ی این کتاب بودم، مسیر داستان رو به سمت شگفت‌انگیزی می‌کشوندم. واقعا ایده‌ای که واسه این داستان داشتم رو دوست داشتم برای همین، یه مقدار تو ذوقم خورد که اینقدر معمولی پیش رفت.
اگه نویسنده‌ی این کتاب بودم، مسیر داستان رو به سمت شگفت‌انگیزی می‌کشوندم. واقعا ایده‌ای که واسه این داستان داشتم رو دوست داشتم برای همین، یه مقدار تو ذوقم خورد که اینقدر معمولی پیش رفت.
April 13, 2017
Started well but turned into something bland.
Ryu Murakami's Audition is way better.
Ryu Murakami's Audition is way better.
August 4, 2017
from the perspective of the sole survivor of a brutal massacre that took the lives of her four family members in one single night,Deep Red unflinchingly follows Kanako's life before and after the catastrophic event.
harrowing and disturbing at times but the depth in which Hisashi Nozawa wrote the protagonist made her a wonderfully executed character. you sympathized with her, despised her even and sometimes you just want to pat her on the back and saying thank you for staying alive after all this. her relationship with the killer's daughter was one of the highlight and even though we were not given enough to get to know Miho but it was sufficient and by the end of it all I'm glad that what Kanako seeks for herself by forming an unexpected bond with Miho turned out to be a midnight rainbow for both of them.
have to say that it is always such a rollercoaster of an experience reading Japanese thrillers.
something sinister, raw and sharp truth about human condition that only they can do. their willingness to plunge into the darker recess of our pyche is just something that is akin to their expertise.
harrowing and disturbing at times but the depth in which Hisashi Nozawa wrote the protagonist made her a wonderfully executed character. you sympathized with her, despised her even and sometimes you just want to pat her on the back and saying thank you for staying alive after all this. her relationship with the killer's daughter was one of the highlight and even though we were not given enough to get to know Miho but it was sufficient and by the end of it all I'm glad that what Kanako seeks for herself by forming an unexpected bond with Miho turned out to be a midnight rainbow for both of them.
have to say that it is always such a rollercoaster of an experience reading Japanese thrillers.
something sinister, raw and sharp truth about human condition that only they can do. their willingness to plunge into the darker recess of our pyche is just something that is akin to their expertise.
January 31, 2022
I borrowed this book with no expectation turned out this book was page turner, it was so thrilling and made me want to read it all at once.
September 26, 2019
Nearer the end of the book I started to believe that Miho actually knew it was Kanako the whole time and was going to either a.) frame her for her husband Akira’s murder, or b.) murder Kanako using the plot to kill her husband as a ruse. I thought that maybe the abuse by Akira wasn’t real and they were actually just a very twisted couple in love who was lying to Kanako.
(bc of the picnic part and that he knew about her dad).
As this didn’t happen, and the “revenge” I was expecting actually just lead to semi forgiveness (if not a more rounded understanding of events), I guess I was a little disappointed.
Compared to the start of the book, the ending was just okay. It’s honestly just a “fine” book. There’s nothing really wrong with it, I guess I just had somewhat high expectations for a bloody revenge.
(bc of the picnic part and that he knew about her dad).
As this didn’t happen, and the “revenge” I was expecting actually just lead to semi forgiveness (if not a more rounded understanding of events), I guess I was a little disappointed.
Compared to the start of the book, the ending was just okay. It’s honestly just a “fine” book. There’s nothing really wrong with it, I guess I just had somewhat high expectations for a bloody revenge.
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October 18, 2024
عنوان فارسی کتاب: قرمز خونین/ترجمه ی نشر دانش آفرین
کتاب راجع به دختری به اسم کاناکوئه که در ۱۲ سالگی و زمانیکه به خاطر اردوی مدرسه خارج از توکیو به سر میبره، همه ی اعضای خانواده اش رو طی یک قتل فجیع از دست میده!
ماجرای قتل و انگیزه ی قاتل همون ابتدای کتاب مشخص میشه و بعد با گذشت هشت سال، میرسیم به کاناکوی بیست ساله ای که به دنبال انتقامه!!
داستان کتاب تکراری بود و هیچ هیجانی نداشت یعنی نحوه ی انتقام کاناکو و اینکه از کی قرار بود انتقام بگیره یا اینکه در نهایت سرنوشت و سرانجامش چی میشه کاملا مشخص و قابل پیش بینی بود!
یه بخشهایی از کتاب هم به شدت بچه گانه و دور از منطق بود جوریکه من مدام چک میکردم ببینم درست فهمیدم که نویسنده ی این رمان یه مرد میانساله و نه احیاناً یه دختر تینیجر؟؟؟🥴
تازه جالب و عجیبه که این نویسنده جنایی نویس معروفی در ژاپنه که فیلم نامه هم مینویسه و از بعضی کتابهاش مثل همین یکی، اقتباس سینمایی هم صورت گرفته…!!!
خلاصه که حیف پول و وقت..
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کتاب راجع به دختری به اسم کاناکوئه که در ۱۲ سالگی و زمانیکه به خاطر اردوی مدرسه خارج از توکیو به سر میبره، همه ی اعضای خانواده اش رو طی یک قتل فجیع از دست میده!
ماجرای قتل و انگیزه ی قاتل همون ابتدای کتاب مشخص میشه و بعد با گذشت هشت سال، میرسیم به کاناکوی بیست ساله ای که به دنبال انتقامه!!
داستان کتاب تکراری بود و هیچ هیجانی نداشت یعنی نحوه ی انتقام کاناکو و اینکه از کی قرار بود انتقام بگیره یا اینکه در نهایت سرنوشت و سرانجامش چی میشه کاملا مشخص و قابل پیش بینی بود!
یه بخشهایی از کتاب هم به شدت بچه گانه و دور از منطق بود جوریکه من مدام چک میکردم ببینم درست فهمیدم که نویسنده ی این رمان یه مرد میانساله و نه احیاناً یه دختر تینیجر؟؟؟🥴
تازه جالب و عجیبه که این نویسنده جنایی نویس معروفی در ژاپنه که فیلم نامه هم مینویسه و از بعضی کتابهاش مثل همین یکی، اقتباس سینمایی هم صورت گرفته…!!!
خلاصه که حیف پول و وقت..
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August 24, 2017
Hisashi Nozawa is a screenwriter. As a result, the pacing of this book is great. It details one tragic event and its effect on two young impressionable girls over time. Nozawa does a very good job of illustrating PTSD in a non-military context. It's over-dramatic, but I guess that's just cinematic writing for you.
7.5/10
7.5/10
January 11, 2022
The last 50 pages had me riveted!
May 18, 2020
Hope we see more of this man's work in English at some point.
July 6, 2018
Well 3.5 stars to be honest ...
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