The Book of The Week 06: Shibumi
Dear readers,
This week’s writer was a mysterious one, Trevanian, as we once knew him. Nowadays we know his real identity. He was american writer Rodney William Whitaker. Shibumi, his best novel, is chosen as the book of the week. For more information including download links in turkish:
Summary: Shibumi Trevanian Publisher: Crown Publishing Group Page: 496 ISBN: 9781400098033 Nicholai Hel is the world’s most wanted man. Born in Shanghai during the chaos of World War I, he is the son of an aristocratic Russian mother and a mysterious German father and is the protégé of a Japanese Go master. Hel survived the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world’s most artful lover and its most accomplished—and well-paid—assassin. Hel is a genius, a mystic, and a master of language and culture, and his secret is his determination to attain a rare kind of personal excellence, a state of effortless perfection known only as shibumi. Now living in an isolated mountain fortress with his exquisite mistress, Hel is unwillingly drawn back into the life he’d tried to leave behind when a beautiful young stranger arrives at his door, seeking help and refuge. It soon becomes clear that Hel is being tracked by his most sinister enemy—a supermonolith of international espionage known only as the Mother Company. The battle lines are drawn: ruthless power and corruption on one side, and on the other . . . shibumi..
See you later in next article, I wish you all happy reading,
Tuesday, 2nd April, 2013 Antalya, Türkiye
Harun Taner <harun.taner.antalya@gmail.com>