Salmonella Men on Planet Porno - Softcover

Tsutsui, Yasutaka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846880688 ISBN 13: 9781846880681

Publisher: Alma Books Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Defying the commonly held perceptions of time and space, and escaping any easy classifications, Yasutaka Tsutsui's stories centre on the folly of human desire. Most of his characters suffer awful fates as a result of their own foolishness, which usually takes the form of greed, lust or vanity. With influences as diverse as Darwin, Freud and the Marx Brothers, his writing displays a mixture of pathos, slapstick and psychological insight, shot through with bolts of Kafkaesque inventiveness. Tsutsui's quirky imagination, and his ability to construct new and striking realities, threaded with a dark-edged, menacing humour, make him a truly unique literary voice, and ensure that "Salmonella Men on Planet Porno" is hard to put down and impossible to forget.

About this title

Review:

Imagine a manic J.G. Ballard, but one with an even darker past to work out -- Nick Lezard, the Guardian

The nice thing about Tsutsui is that history and modernity combine effortlessly -- Philip Hensher, The Daily Telegraph

Review:

The nice thing about Tsutsui is that history and modernity combine effortlessly

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1846880688
• ISBN 13: 9781846880681
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300