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Ghost of a Smile [Englisch] [Gebundene Ausgabe]

Deborah Boliver Boehm (Autor)

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Like a restaurant whose cuisine features a fusion of Pacific Rim and American ingredients, Boehm serves up a collection of stories set mainly in Japan, adds a mixture of Asian and American characters, and spices it all up with traditional Japanese culture, up-to-the-minute trendiness, and elements of the supernatural. Typical of this blend is "Hungry Ghosts in Love," in which Josephine, a travel writer, goes to the Japanese Alps to investigate a ghost story and has a passionate affair with a mysterious priest whom she can see only once a year. As the author notes in an epilogue, the spirit of Lafcadio Hearn presides over this book, for the film version of Kwaidan, his collection of Japanese ghost stories, was part of her inspiration. In addition to the supernatural elements woven into each tale, the first story, "The Samurai Goodbye," is narrated by the grandson of a famous writer patterned after Hearn. Although sometimes overlong and meandering, the stories offer a tasty mixture of the humorous, the exotic, and the weird. Mary Ellen Quinn
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These are some of the best variations on classic ghost, werewolf, and vampire tales (all based here on traditional Japanese folklore) to come along in quite a while. Perhaps it is their setting in a beautifully if sometimes ruefully rendered modern-day Japan that makes them especially compelling. Perhaps it is the brilliant use of language, which begs comparison to some of the best storytellers working today. But more likely it is the central theme of the stories that what truly haunts us in life is our own faults and failures, especially our own inability to find and hold onto love. This idea, connecting these imaginative, funny, grotesque, and original tales, makes them something more to think about than the average supernatural yarn. It may be quibbling to mention the faults of stories of this caliber overuse of ornate vocabulary, the tendency to sum things up a little too neatly at the end but one hopes a writer this good will learn and continue to improve. Recommended for all fiction collections. Tom Cooper, Richmond Heights Memorial Lib., MO
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Succulent 4. März 2001
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Ghost of a Smile is a delightful and spooky read. Each story paints a vivid new picture that revels in the country of Japan, its people and the transplants from the West who find themselves there. The main characters of each story have remained with me as distinct people (and ghosts), which is unique in the genre of short fiction. Deborah Boliver Boehme is a witty and incisive author who treats us to sensory delights and surprises in this entertaining tour across cultures and settings.
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Imaginative! 18. Juli 2001
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In this collection of eight short stories, the author uses Japanese folklore, exotic settings, Americans abroad, love, and supernatural beings to create interesting, exciting, and fun reading. The characters are playful rather than serious, enabling the reader to quickly feel attached to them. On the way through each superbly crafted plot, are unexpected and rather unusual surprises. What great entertainment! Ghost of a Smile makes exploring short stories a pleasure.

Some of the best stories include one in which a coffee shop owner suspects something amiss with the patrons of a new restaurant ("The Undead of Uguisudani"), one in which a woman loses her lover and becomes enamored of a monk ("Hungry Ghosts in Love"), and one in which a shy librarian is affected by the aphrodisiac qualities imparted to her by a white snake ("The Snake Spell").

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Not what you'd expect 22. Februar 2001
Von Tom Cooper - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com
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Debra Boliver Boehm's collection of supernatural tales, based mostly on Japanese folklore, are a welcome surprise. I do not like and do not read ghost stories and vampire stories. But these stories were so well written, so unique in their setting, so witty and satirical in their execution, that I read them one right after the other. They are connected by a common thread, the quest for true love or true identity within the main character of each story, and this lends power to the collection as a whole. This is a collection I hope people won't overlook.

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