Die Stadt, in der es mich nicht gibt 01

Von Kei Sanbe

Wann immer ein Unglück in Satoru Fujinumas Beisein geschieht, wird er in der Zeit zurückgeschickt, um es zu verhindern. Sein Leben gerät endgültig ins Wanken, als ein erschütterndes Ereignis ihn bis in seine Kindheit katapultiert, wo er plötzlich die Chance bekommt eine Mordserie aus seiner Grundschulzeit zu verhindern ...

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: TOKYOPOP Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27. Feb. 2015
• ISBN: 9783842014862

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[shimmin_1 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

I picked this up on spec in a bookshop because the cover looked pretty cool. I was expecting probably a story about being a primary school (middle school in Japan, I suppose) kid. This is... not that. Very much not that. It took me a long time to get to grips with what it actually is, because it's both unexpected and complicated (and in Japanese). To cut a long story short, the protagonist has a strange "rewind" ability that lets him skip back in time to prevent disasters. However, the story has two other major plot strands, which complicates matters. One is his ongoing attempt to understand his inability to connect with people, and to revive buried memories of the past. Later, a third strand appears involving a dangerous criminal. As the volume finishes, these three strands have converged into a single pulse-pounding story. I was slow reading the first half, taking a good while to understand where things were going and so to get immersed in the story. I read the second half without stopping, and the last quarter without breathing. I am tormented by the fact that almost certainly no copies of the next volume exist in my country. I have not been this excited about a book for ages.

[leandrod-2 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

Very interesting þriller.