Matthew Crosby

The Curse of the Mastsumoto Cherrywood-Book Two (The Curse of the Matsumoto Cherrywood, Books One, Two and Three, #2) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

​​​​​​​Book Two: A ghost story that weaves the aesthetics of Japanese art with the grit of Tokyo's underworld. The dark history of the cherrywood print blocks, an organised crime family and a Melbourne detective in Tokyo'the power of love and the love of power, like a devil's mandala, once it rolls just you try and stop it'. Book Two returns this generational saga to contemporary Japan. The hidden influence of the cherrywood print blocks heats in the blood-lines of the ill-fated Kota crime family. Melbourne Detective Peter Martin feels his calm and calculating style of policing unravel in the burning desire to avenge his wife's murder. With the reluctant assistance of Tokyo junior detective Kiko Honda, Martin attacks. The Curse of the Matsumoto Cherrywood is a story about the desecration of art and love, first seen in the deaths of artist Takabata and dancer Momo but also in the earlier histories glimpsed in the stories of the enigmatic warden of Matsumoto Castle in Book One. Chasing on foot, trains and automobiles, this second book in the series moves from Tokyo to Mount Ontakè in the Japanese Alps where artists and criminals face the open expression of an ancient curse. Deep in the mountains, the aspirations of artists to annotate the world and the ambitions of the power-hungry to control it meet catastrophically. These deeper motivations drive this extended art-heist saga, they inform the actions of its characters, they guide its writer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Matthew Crosby
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798223188995
• Artikelnr.: 72782473

Autorenporträt

In various forms, I've been writing all my life. My theatre, television and film career has focused my attempts within that sphere. At the age of 50 I commenced my first pass at longform fiction writing with The Curse of the Matsumoto Cherrywood. What a fabulous form! Early on, I took advice from a published speech that screen writer Andrew Bovell made, in which he said that a writer should be surprised by the trips and turns of their characters. When I came to decisions that might limit the scope, I admit, I should have known better. I followed the meandering path of ghost story writing till the scope became epic. A decade of research, theatre projects in Japan and experience gained writing in the novel fiction form led me to this saga. Concurrently, I wrote the play The Intriguing Case of the Silent Forest, and a screenplay following Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke which I called Lipstick. The play was performed in 2019, two days ago I met with Korean Japanese director Kim Sujin, who says that the project is advancing. So, with the second book hitting the digital stands this month of February 2024, I am thrilled to be presenting the fruits of these Japanese influences, a series of novels on the Smashwords format. It provides a platform for writers to reach readers directly, and for that I am thankful. Please do drop me a line, I look forward to hearing your response to the story so far.