Kill Alice
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2014 'This Mystery is Amazing' 4th Place 2014 'Top 10 Authentic Mysteries' #6 2014 'I Want to Read a Mystery' 8th Place 2014 Gay Bookstore Novel Award Winner 2013 Weekly Bunshun Mystery Top 10: 13th place The fantastical nature of Alice in Wonderland A full-fledged mystery hit with grotesque depictions and meticulous logic. Since winning the Japan Horror Novel Award for Short Story with his debut work [Toy Repairman] in 1995, Yasumi Kobayashi has freely crossed over between horror, science fiction, and mystery, creating a uniquely colored "Kobayashi World." He has been recognized as an author who can handle various genres, winning the SF Magazine Readers' Award for [The Man Who Watches the Sea] and the Seiun Award for [Heaven and Hell], and even gaining support from mystery readers with [Secret Room? Murder] and [A Small Secret Room in the Big Forest]. He has been particularly praised for his outstanding ability to naturally blend the characteristics of different genres into a single work. The strength of Kobayashi's mystery is that it sufficiently contains the framework of a mystery with meticulous rules and logical settings, while adding the cruel descriptions of a horror novel expert, creating a strange atmosphere different from that of typical mysteries. The new work, "Killing Alice," goes one step further and attempts to combine it with world-renowned classics, condensing the author's accumulated skills over the past 20 years. Based on Lewis Carroll's fantasy novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, this novel, which depicts the process of tracking down a serial killer while going back and forth between dreams and reality, received favorable reviews as a "successful combination of classics and mystery," and was ranked 4th in "This Mystery is Amazing" and 6th in "Top 10 Authentic Mysteries" in 2014, making it onto major mystery rankings in Japan. |
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Kill Alice
“What would happen if Alice were arrested for murdering Humpty Dumpty?”
“As I said before, you’ll end up in jail.”
“What if the judge was the queen?”
“I might lose my neck.
Because the Queen says, 'Cut off the head!' to whoever the opponent is.
But in reality, the person whose neck was cut off… … .”
“They weren’t caught for committing a crime.
So no one had the heart to execute the brother.
But if he's a murderer."
“Alice will be executed.
But what's wrong with dying in a dream... in a virtual reality? If a game character dies, it's just someone scolding them, saying, "You're so bad at dying."
“I’ll tell you one important piece of information.
“Your heart seems strong enough.” Imori took a deep breath.
“It was Humpty Dumpty, Mr. Ozzy’s avatar in Wonderland.”
"huh?"
Ari was momentarily confused, unable to understand what Imori meant by that.
And as I slowly began to understand what he meant, my body began to tremble.
I was gripped by a thrill I had never experienced before and could not calm my mind.
"okay.
“It is possible that the deaths of the two worlds are connected,” Imori said calmly.
“In that case, if Alice is executed, you in the real world will die too.” --- p.68
But this time, the joke went too far.
The man was holding a kitchen knife in his hand.
I even wrapped it with tape so that I wouldn't lose it from my hand.
If it's not a joke, then there's enough murderous intent.
Does anyone care, or is it targeting me and Rio?
If it's the latter, it might have something to do with Wonderland.
Anyway, I can't just sit still and die.
“Ahahaha.” The man opened his mouth wide.
The inside of his bright red mouth was clearly visible.
“What would happen if Alice were arrested for murdering Humpty Dumpty?”
“As I said before, you’ll end up in jail.”
“What if the judge was the queen?”
“I might lose my neck.
Because the Queen says, 'Cut off the head!' to whoever the opponent is.
But in reality, the person whose neck was cut off… … .”
“They weren’t caught for committing a crime.
So no one had the heart to execute the brother.
But if he's a murderer."
“Alice will be executed.
But what's wrong with dying in a dream... in a virtual reality? If a game character dies, it's just someone scolding them, saying, "You're so bad at dying."
“I’ll tell you one important piece of information.
“Your heart seems strong enough.” Imori took a deep breath.
“It was Humpty Dumpty, Mr. Ozzy’s avatar in Wonderland.”
"huh?"
Ari was momentarily confused, unable to understand what Imori meant by that.
And as I slowly began to understand what he meant, my body began to tremble.
I was gripped by a thrill I had never experienced before and could not calm my mind.
"okay.
“It is possible that the deaths of the two worlds are connected,” Imori said calmly.
“In that case, if Alice is executed, you in the real world will die too.” --- p.68
But this time, the joke went too far.
The man was holding a kitchen knife in his hand.
I even wrapped it with tape so that I wouldn't lose it from my hand.
If it's not a joke, then there's enough murderous intent.
Does anyone care, or is it targeting me and Rio?
If it's the latter, it might have something to do with Wonderland.
Anyway, I can't just sit still and die.
“Ahahaha.” The man opened his mouth wide.
The inside of his bright red mouth was clearly visible.
--- p.146
Publisher's Review
Kill Alice
2014 'This Mystery is Amazing' 4th Place
2014 'Top 10 Authentic Mysteries' #6
2014 'I Want to Read a Mystery' 8th Place
2014 Gay Bookstore Novel Award Winner
2013 "Shukan Bunshun's Top 10 Mysteries" ranked 13th
The fantastical nature of Alice in Wonderland
A full-fledged mystery hit with grotesque depictions and meticulous logic.
Since winning the Japan Horror Novel Award for Short Story with his debut work [Toy Repairman] in 1995, Yasumi Kobayashi has freely crossed over between horror, science fiction, and mystery, creating a uniquely colored "Kobayashi World."
He has been recognized as an author who can handle various genres, winning the SF Magazine Readers' Award for [The Man Who Sees the Sea] and the Seiun Award for [Heaven and Hell], and even gaining support from mystery readers with [Secret Room? Murder] and [A Small Secret Room in the Big Forest]. He has been particularly praised for his outstanding ability to naturally blend the characteristics of different genres into a single work.
The strength of Kobayashi's mystery is that it sufficiently contains the framework of a mystery with meticulous rules and logical settings, while adding the cruel descriptions of a horror novel expert, creating a strange atmosphere different from that of typical mysteries.
The new work, "Killing Alice," goes one step further and attempts to combine it with world-renowned classics, condensing the author's accumulated expertise over the past 20 years.
Based on Lewis Carroll's fantasy novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, this novel depicts the process of tracking down a serial killer while going back and forth between dreams and reality, and was praised as a "successful combination of classics and mystery," and was ranked 4th in "This Mystery is Amazing" and 6th in "Top 10 Authentic Mysteries" in 2014, making it onto major mystery rankings in Japan.
Two worlds linked by death, only seven days left to clear one's name.
If we don't find the real culprit, both Alice and I will die!
While Alice is chatting with Bill the Lizard, Humpty Dumpty the egg falls to his death from the Queen's garden wall.
The March Hare and the Mad Hatter start a fuss about a murder case, and Alice is framed as a suspect because of the testimony of the White Rabbit, a witness who saw her at the scene of the crime.
Meanwhile, Ari, a graduate student who has been suffering from strange dreams featuring the March Hare and the Mad Hatter, hears that Oji, a researcher at the same university, has fallen to his death from a rooftop. While discussing the incident with her classmate, Imori, she discovers that he is having the same dream.
Ari and Imori realize that the deaths that occurred in two different worlds are connected, and that they are Alice and Bill, respectively.
The two decide to go find the White Rabbit to clear Alice's name, but soon another murder occurs, putting Alice and Ari in even greater danger.
Alice in Wonderland, which is the basis for Killing Alice, is a work that has had a powerful influence not only in the English-speaking world but also around the world.
This novel, which stands out for its bizarre imagination and sense of humor, dizzying wordplay, and grotesque characters, has been read sometimes as a children's fairy tale and sometimes as a subject of study in various fields such as psychology and sociology, and has inspired various artistic fields such as literature, comics, and film, giving birth to countless contents.
It is already a well-known fact that the manga "Arms" is based on "Alice in Wonderland" as its main motif, and that Miyuki Miyabe's novel "The Hunting of the Snark" is based on Lewis Carroll's satirical poem "The Hunting of the Snark."
In addition, 『Killing Alice』 establishes the world of Alice created by Carroll as the main axis of the novel, and characters that will feel familiar to anyone who has encountered 『Alice in Wonderland』 through the book or movie, such as the White Rabbit, Bill the Lizard, the Queen, the Mad Hatter, and the Gryphon, are transferred intact to the world of mystery.
Furthermore, by adding Kobayashi Yasumi's signature grotesque and cruel descriptions to the original's wordplay, you can experience a great deal of pleasure just by reading the conversations between characters and the descriptions of events.
Above all, the process of going back and forth between reality and dreams, finding clues to the serial murders left behind in both worlds and deducing the culprit is incredibly exciting.
By comparing the characters in the real world with those in Alice's world, you can guess who is who, and follow the clues that the culprit missed. At the end of the novel, you will encounter a twist that the author has meticulously prepared.
2014 'This Mystery is Amazing' 4th Place
2014 'Top 10 Authentic Mysteries' #6
2014 'I Want to Read a Mystery' 8th Place
2014 Gay Bookstore Novel Award Winner
2013 "Shukan Bunshun's Top 10 Mysteries" ranked 13th
The fantastical nature of Alice in Wonderland
A full-fledged mystery hit with grotesque depictions and meticulous logic.
Since winning the Japan Horror Novel Award for Short Story with his debut work [Toy Repairman] in 1995, Yasumi Kobayashi has freely crossed over between horror, science fiction, and mystery, creating a uniquely colored "Kobayashi World."
He has been recognized as an author who can handle various genres, winning the SF Magazine Readers' Award for [The Man Who Sees the Sea] and the Seiun Award for [Heaven and Hell], and even gaining support from mystery readers with [Secret Room? Murder] and [A Small Secret Room in the Big Forest]. He has been particularly praised for his outstanding ability to naturally blend the characteristics of different genres into a single work.
The strength of Kobayashi's mystery is that it sufficiently contains the framework of a mystery with meticulous rules and logical settings, while adding the cruel descriptions of a horror novel expert, creating a strange atmosphere different from that of typical mysteries.
The new work, "Killing Alice," goes one step further and attempts to combine it with world-renowned classics, condensing the author's accumulated expertise over the past 20 years.
Based on Lewis Carroll's fantasy novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, this novel depicts the process of tracking down a serial killer while going back and forth between dreams and reality, and was praised as a "successful combination of classics and mystery," and was ranked 4th in "This Mystery is Amazing" and 6th in "Top 10 Authentic Mysteries" in 2014, making it onto major mystery rankings in Japan.
Two worlds linked by death, only seven days left to clear one's name.
If we don't find the real culprit, both Alice and I will die!
While Alice is chatting with Bill the Lizard, Humpty Dumpty the egg falls to his death from the Queen's garden wall.
The March Hare and the Mad Hatter start a fuss about a murder case, and Alice is framed as a suspect because of the testimony of the White Rabbit, a witness who saw her at the scene of the crime.
Meanwhile, Ari, a graduate student who has been suffering from strange dreams featuring the March Hare and the Mad Hatter, hears that Oji, a researcher at the same university, has fallen to his death from a rooftop. While discussing the incident with her classmate, Imori, she discovers that he is having the same dream.
Ari and Imori realize that the deaths that occurred in two different worlds are connected, and that they are Alice and Bill, respectively.
The two decide to go find the White Rabbit to clear Alice's name, but soon another murder occurs, putting Alice and Ari in even greater danger.
Alice in Wonderland, which is the basis for Killing Alice, is a work that has had a powerful influence not only in the English-speaking world but also around the world.
This novel, which stands out for its bizarre imagination and sense of humor, dizzying wordplay, and grotesque characters, has been read sometimes as a children's fairy tale and sometimes as a subject of study in various fields such as psychology and sociology, and has inspired various artistic fields such as literature, comics, and film, giving birth to countless contents.
It is already a well-known fact that the manga "Arms" is based on "Alice in Wonderland" as its main motif, and that Miyuki Miyabe's novel "The Hunting of the Snark" is based on Lewis Carroll's satirical poem "The Hunting of the Snark."
In addition, 『Killing Alice』 establishes the world of Alice created by Carroll as the main axis of the novel, and characters that will feel familiar to anyone who has encountered 『Alice in Wonderland』 through the book or movie, such as the White Rabbit, Bill the Lizard, the Queen, the Mad Hatter, and the Gryphon, are transferred intact to the world of mystery.
Furthermore, by adding Kobayashi Yasumi's signature grotesque and cruel descriptions to the original's wordplay, you can experience a great deal of pleasure just by reading the conversations between characters and the descriptions of events.
Above all, the process of going back and forth between reality and dreams, finding clues to the serial murders left behind in both worlds and deducing the culprit is incredibly exciting.
By comparing the characters in the real world with those in Alice's world, you can guess who is who, and follow the clues that the culprit missed. At the end of the novel, you will encounter a twist that the author has meticulously prepared.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: December 21, 2015
- Page count, weight, size: 364 pages | 428g | 130*190*25mm
- ISBN13: 9788952775184
- ISBN10: 895277518X
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