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新世界より (上)

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by 貴志祐介

volume 1 of 新世界より

( 11 ratings, 3 reviews )

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[DeepL Translation - needs review] This was supposed to be a spotless utopia. Japan after 1000 years. Legends. Disappearing children. The author's first full-length novel in three and a half years, reaching the pinnacle of his career!

Children must obtain the "Juryoku" in order to become adults. In a seemingly peaceful school, children are thoroughly controlled. What is hidden in this community of the always-alienated? A nightmare befalls these children who have grown up knowing nothing abo...

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Page Count:

488

ISBN:

4062768534

ISBN13:

9784062768535

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(4.18/5)

11 ratings3 reviews

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paradisosays

December 25, 2022

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First half felt like reading a very long wikipedia article, too much worldbuilding honestly, in the second half the narration was still super slow but the plot felt was like it was proceeding too fast(????) Just watch the anime save yourself from this torture I hope the next two books are going to get better But at least I learned a lot of fancy and aulic words

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pm215says

July 16, 2023

(Review date: Nov 2011)

This SF novel won the Nihon SF Taishō Award in 2008. It's a very long book -- in the paperback edition I have it is over 1500 pages split across three volumes. It's not a huge world-spanning adventure; it's an examination of a small and essentially isolated community living in Japan perhaps a thousand years in the future. The author has won prizes for mystery fiction before, and some of the way he unfolds the plot is reminiscent of a good mystery.

The story is framed as

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bisonsays

May 24, 2021

As with other books by Kishi Yusuke (貴志祐介), the main difficulty is the vocabulary. The prose style is no harder than your average adult book, so If you're reading with a popup dictionary this could be fairly accessible. That said, the number of unknown words in this was substantially greater than in other books considered somewhat difficult (e.g. Re: Zero).

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