The Navidad Incident The Navidad Incident

The Navidad Incident

The Downfall of Matías Guili

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Publisher Description

In this sweeping magical-realist epic set in the fictional south sea island Republic of Navidad, Ikezawa gives his imagination free rein to reinvent the myths of the twentieth century Japan. The story takes off as a delegation of Japanese war veterans pays an official visit to the ex-World War II colony, only to see the Japanese flag burst into flames. The following day, the tour bus, and its passengers, simply vanish. The locals exchange absurd rumors—the bus was last seen attending Catholic mass, the bus must have skipped across the lagoon—but the president suspects a covert guerrilla organization is trying to undermine his connections with Japan. Can the real answers to the mystery be found, or will the president have to be content with the surreal answers?

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2012
March 20
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
VIZ Media
SELLER
VIZ Media, LLC
SIZE
2.2
MB

Customer Reviews

RicPDX ,

Fiction, fantasy, or nonsense

Bursts of narrative poetry, characters with the potential to fascinate and a titillating undercurrent of the supernatural fail to elevate this novel to a level worthy of translator Alfred Birnbaum's great skills. There are points when the story begins to take shape and move along and then stalls and stutters like an old bus driven too many miles on old island roads. A good editor may have smoothed out some of the potholes in the plot but only a few of the minor characters were drawn with any depth and dimension.

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