About the Author:
Koji Suzuki was born in 1957 in Hamamastu, southwest of Tokyo. He attended Keio University where he majored in French. After graduating he held numerous odd jobs, including a stint as a cram school teacher. Also a self-described jock, he holds a first-class yachting license and crossed the U.S., from Key West to Los Angeles, on his motorcycle.
The father of two daughters, Suzuki is a respected authority on childrearing and has written numerous works on the subject. He acquired his expertise when he was a struggling writer and househusband. Suzuki also has translated a children’s book into Japanese, The Little Sod Diaries by the crime novelist Simon Brett.
Paradise is Suzuki’s fifth novel to appear in English. His current work in progress is Edge City, a novel of quantum horror. He is based in Tokyo but loves to travel, often in the United States.
From Booklist:
The first book by the author of the oft-adapted international horror hit Ring (2003) is a millennia-spanning saga-cum-romance based on the Bering "land-bridge" theory of prehistoric migration from Siberia to North America. The book's first part, "Legend," traces the paths of separated lovers whose emblems of leaping red deer mark their trails. "Paradise" leaps to the eighteenth century and an English sailor shipwrecked on a South Pacific island who falls in love with a native girl descended from one of the ancient lovers; she sees a godhead in the same deer image. In the late twentieth century in "The Desert," a composer said to be "a Casanova with Indian blood"--a further descendant from the prehistoric lover who crossed the land-bridge--undertakes a mystical journey below the Arizona sands. Suzuki won the Japan Fantasy Novel Award for this book and went on to international fame for ostensibly creating a new kind of antigore horror with the successfully filmed (in Japanese and American versions) and manga-adapted Ring, whose fans, in particular, may go for Paradise.Whitney Scott
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