Marking this because there'll be a Korean tv series adaptation next week. Don't think the acting in the original Japanese tv-movie caSolomon's Perjury
Marking this because there'll be a Korean tv series adaptation next week. Don't think the acting in the original Japanese tv-movie can be topped by the Koreans, but I may be wrong.
I had wanted to read the books the moment they came out a few years ago, even more so when the tv movies came out last year. I ended up watching the movies first, which I really liked.
Miyabe explored the concept of lies and the power lies can hold over people, even someone as wise and powerful as King Solomon (hence the title, she'd explained).
It all started from the protagonist, high schooler Fujino Ryoko, discovering a fellow classmate's dead body one Christmas morning in 1990, just before the bubble economy collapsed in Japan. The ensuing untruths, just like the financial bubble, caused collateral damage and when the adults couldn't give the students the truths they wanted, Ryoko and her classmates decided to take matters into their own hands.
What followed is a YA-style kids-take-centrestage stuff as the students held a trial by the students and for the students, which made me envious 'cause my high school wasn't half as happening. Anddd that's why there's a whole genre called YA - deep down all of us wished our high school years were more special than they ever could be.
Miyabe being Miyabe, I'm guessing the ending would be better in the book, so am still looking forward to reading them. Soon!
[image] Japanese poster
[image] Korean poster
"Maybe I was able to do what I did, precisely because I was fourteen." ~ Fujino Ryoko...more
They are a couple of immensely talented poets, filling this thin but elegant volume to the brim with their unbridledThe wildest place on earth - love.
They are a couple of immensely talented poets, filling this thin but elegant volume to the brim with their unbridled musings and prose on love; with words so liquid and free, they evoke the natural beauty of the Indonesian archipelago....more
I chanced upon this book many years ago when I was visiting Amsterdam, and was so enthralled as I was skimming it I *almost* parted with all of 50 EurI chanced upon this book many years ago when I was visiting Amsterdam, and was so enthralled as I was skimming it I *almost* parted with all of 50 Euros, but for the fact that I was a student travelling on a budget.
Yet I regretted my decision then, for admittedly the one I saw was the hardcover edition (with the psychedelic 3D image slip cover), which is now unavailable to buy online.
As I remembered it, it was very authentic and original, kinda like Bruce Mao but electrified with more wildness and freedom.
It remains the single book that I've continued to look for ever since, and I will always remember that cloudy day in Amsterdam, where time seemed to stop as I browsed through this book, one of many gems in a bookstore stocked by a true curator.
Edit: Sagmeister just replied to my question on his insta account. I am now officially his apprentice! ...more
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