by Koji Suzuki · Harper Collins UK · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007765706
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«Ring» is the psychological horror novel by Koji Suzuki published by Harper Collins UK in paperback (392 pages, in English).
Asakawa investigates his niece's death and discovers that three other young people died a week after watching a mysterious video tape in a cabin. The tape's message warns that whoever watches it will die in seven days. With that deadline, he traces the curse's origin to an apocalyptic power threatening his family and civilisation.
First instalment of the Ring series. The novel originally appeared in Japan in 1991 as «リング»; this English edition, published in 2003, features translation by Robert B. Rohmer and Glynne Walley.
For readers of psychological horror who want to discover the original novel on which the well-known film adaptation is based.
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki , was a Japanese essayist, philosopher, religious scholar, and translator. He was an authority on Buddhism, especially Zen and Shin, and was instrumental in spreading interest in these to the West. He was also a prolific translator of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and Sanskrit literature. Suzuki spent several lengthy stretches teaching or lecturing at Western universities and devoted many years to a professorship at Ōtani University, a Japanese university of the Ōtani School of Jōdo Shinshū.
