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Dead in Venice
‘We meet again, old friend!’ I think, smiling bashfully. I slightly raise my right hand in greeting, taking care the gesture is not mistaken for a Nazi salute. This is how I express my deep affection for Venice, but as only one person among the crowds of return visitors the city has no need to see again, the place neither particularly welcomes nor rejects me. The truth is that few people in Venice have a specific reason for being there. The city reached its pinnacle more than seven hundred years ago when its population, centred on commerce and military activity, was over three times greater than it is today. The city began to slide into ruin around the Age of Discovery as Spain and Portugal stole the lead in foreign trade. By the time Goethe visited Venice, it had been completely transformed into a tourist destination, much in the way of Greece. Most visitors come to Venice to enjoy a few days getting lost in the city’s alleyways before setting off again, their suitcases rolling behind them.
No matter how often I visit Venice, its appearance does not change. Change is impossible. Perhaps that is why every time I come here I realise I am ageing. Still, the fact that I am able to get older is proof that I am still young; unlike Venice, which no longer ag
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Death By Choice
Yoshio Kita’s hopelessness and lack of faith in his future as an ordinary and lonely company worker crystallizes into a decision to take his own life, in what he calls ‘execution by Death by Choice’. His only remaining problem is how to spend both his remaining self-allocated seven days on earth and all his worldly money, in this darkly comic exploration of the cult of suicide in Japan, a country with one of the world’s highest rates of suicide. From fine dining with a former porn actress to insuring his life, from pursuing his ex-girlfriend to an entanglement with an assassin, Yoshio’s last seven days on earth take on unexpected twists and turns as Shimada asks his readers what it means to have the freedom to end your own life, and what becomes truly important when your days are numbered – even if it is by free choice.
Sensitively translated by Meredith McKinney, this tale of a very modern Japan is now for the first time available to English readers. Sensitively translated by Meredith McKinney, this tale of a very modern Japan is now for the first time available to English readers.
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