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Nell'antichissimo gioco giapponese del Gò, l'immagine delle gru che fanno ritorno al loro nido e vi si rifugiano simboleggia il ritiro dalla lotta di uno dei contendenti. Nicholai Hel - il protagonista di questo romanzo - lo sa molto bene. Ultimo discendente di una nobile famiglia russa emigrata a Shangai, adottato da un nobile guerriero giapponese e educato agli ideali orientali, Nicholai si oppone ai valori occidentali - il denaro, l'interesse, il successo - dilaganti dopo la fine della guerra. Esercita la sua forza interiore, mirando all'equilibrio che porta all'azione irripetibile. Sfruttando le sue doti quasi mistiche e la sua tecnica micidiale di combattimento, diventa una pedina decisiva, ma invisibile, al di sopra del gioco nel quale è coinvolto. Hel è infatti capace del "nudo uccidere", un sistema che permette di utilizzare i comuni oggetti di uso quotidiano come armi mortali.
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- Pagine: 626
- Data di uscita: 25-01-2012
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The reading public back in 1979 picked this book up thinking they were reading a best selling thriller novel, little did they know they were going to be exposed to a Trevanian philosophy called SHIBUMI. “SHIBUMI has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement
Shibumi is, without question, the stupidest book I have ever read. Period. Full stop. It's not close. Shibumi is the 1927 Yankees of stupid books. John Grisham and Dan Brown, working together, operating at the peak of their vaguely misogynist, airport-novel spewing powers, could never hope to approa Leggi tutto
Nicholai Hel is such a stud duck bad-ass that even if James Bond, Indiana Jones, Jason Bourne and the Dos Equis’s Most Interesting Man in the World banded together to try and take him down, he’d just kill them all with a drinking straw while lecturing them on the evils of their materialism. Then he’ Leggi tutto
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5! Senses Working Overtime! SEE the assassin in his youth! see him as a child in war-torn Shanghai, as a young Go-Master in Japan, as a dutiful son and as a tortured prisoner, as an expert caver in Basque Spain, as an equally expert Stage IV Lovemaker! see him enact the "Delight of th Leggi tutto
If you've ever wanted to know what it takes to become the world's hottest lover and most kick-ass ninja-style assassin, then Shibumi lets you in on the secret. First, you need to learn to play Go well; then you have to become fluent in Basque. Real Go players tell me I'm about second Dan strength, b Leggi tutto
I had vaguely heard of Shibumi by reputation, but never actually having had read it, I decided to take the dive. And quite the dive it was with spies and assassinations, sex, and vengeance. After a few hundred pages of backstory, it blisters through the plot at breakneck speed. The protagonist is th Leggi tutto
I picked this up because it's been selected by a group I'm in as a group read. I doubt I'll do much in that conversation as I am MAJORLY disappointed in this book. You know, since the late 1960s or so the CIA has become the favored "whipping boy" (I apologize for the cliche given my complaints about Leggi tutto
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