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Born in Essex on 2 January 1962, Hayder grew up in Loughton as the daughter of John Bastin, an astrophysicist, and Susan Hollins, a teacher. [3] [5] She had a younger brother, Richard. [1] She left school and home for London shortly before her 16th birthday. Hayder was educated at The American University and Bath Spa University. [2] Acting and modelling career [ edit ] It basically reads a chapter of each narrative, combining at the end as the protagonist learns the secrets. Along the way we also learn her history, and how she finds herself linked with the story. With the redolent atmosphere of Ian Rankin and the spine-chilling characters of Thomas Harris, Mo Hayder's The Devil of Nanking, takes the reader on an electrifying literary ride from the palatial apartments of yakuza kingpins to deep inside the secret history of one of the twentieth century's most brutal events: the Nanking Massacre.
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a b c Carvajal, Doreen (1999-05-20). "History's Shadow Foils Nanking Chronicle". The New York Times . Retrieved 2007-07-21. I also must mention that there is such a wild array of characters in each of the stories that I was truly obsessed with them all. Some are captivating, some are disturbing, a couple are amusing, and then a handful were downright terrifying. Some of them were all of the above. I was suddenly in a panic that this terrifying disrespect for death and dying, this reversion in human social evolution, would be reduced to a footnote of history, treated like a harmless glitch in a computer program that might or might not again cause a problem, unless someone forced the world to remember it. [11] :10 Research [ edit ] It's hard to believe this is the same author as "Ritual" which was exciting but certainly not written at this level of detail. I completely trusted the world and characters this author has created. a b c d e f "Clare Dunkel obituary". The Times. 9 August 2021 . Retrieved 9 August 2021. (subscription required)This book follows a young Englishwoman in Japan named Grey. Grey has had a traumatic experience in the past due to her ignorance in the world and everyone around her has named her insane, mentally incapacitated and a danger to people around her. She continually tells them that; no, she's not insane, and continues to allude to the dark thing she had done and the obscure sentence she read in a book about the Massacre of Nanking that lead her to do it. It follows her obsessive search for a video tape she believes will prove that she's not crazy, which leads her to a roller coaster of events after meeting the man Shi Chongming who tells her he will give her the footage if she can help him out first. Shi Chongming denies it, but not convincingly. He puts her off. She adds days to her quest. Nine years, seven months, and twenty days. She is broke. Tokyo even in the 1990s recession is one of the most expensive cities in the world. We are left with her books of course; 10 unutterably dark and riveting crime novels. As a writer she was unique and fearless, with that rare ability to nudge a reader’s imagination into places that were genuinely terrifying and to conjure images that would linger and continue to disturb, like fragments of a nightmare.
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Never I have heard or read such brutality," one American missionary in Nanking, James M. McCallum, wrote in his diary. "Rape! Rape! Rape! We estimate at least 1,000 cases a night and many by day." You’re hiding something.” He raised his arms and used the sleeves of his T-Shirt to wipe his forehead. “It’s easy. I just look at you and I can see it. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I’ve go the--the instinct it’s something I’m going to like. See I’m a...’ he raised two fingers and lightly tapped his forehead ‘...I’m a visionary when it come to women. I can feel it in the air. My God, my skin.’ He shivered and ran his hands down my arms. ‘My skin just about changes colour.’ This article about a thriller novel of the 2000s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. She is survived by her second husband, Bob Graham, a diver, whom she married earlier this year, and her daughter, Lotte, and by her mother, and brother, Richard.You can be brave and confident as you like, you can convince yourself that you’re invulnerable, that you know what you’re dealing with. You think that it won’t ever really get too serious--that there’ll be some kind of a warning before it goes that far, danger music, maybe, playing offstage, the way you get in films. But it seems to me that disasters aren’t like that. Disasters are life’s great ambushers: they have a way of jumping on you when your eyes are fixed on something else.” Great review! I did know about this part of history though not from school. I lived in Asia as a kid plus my dad is a huge history buff. I agree that it should be covered in history classes but there is a lot that Japan did that is unknown in the West. Iris Chang wrote a non-fiction book called The Rape of Nanking that is very good. More than a few of my notes were about how sad I felt reading this story. There were times when I was choked up to the point that I couldn't swallow, other times where I tried to read past the tears in my eyes, but mostly my heart ached. Li En-han, Questions of How Many Chinese Were Killed by the Japanese Army in the Great Nanking Massacre
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a b "Mo Hayder, author of inventive but 'jaw-droppingly grisly' thrillers – obituary". The Telegraph. 9 August 2021 . Retrieved 9 August 2021. He was pushing a wheelchair, in which sat a diminutive insectile man, fragile as an ageing iguana. His head was small, his skin as dry and crenulated as a walnut, and his nose was just a tiny isosceles, nothing more than two shady dabs for nostrils – like a skull’s. The wizened hands that poked out from his suit cuffs were long and brown and dry as dead leaves. The good points were that Grey spends part of the book working in a hostess club, as did the author. Since those clubs aren't part of my usual Japan milieu, I was interested enough to keep reading. The "tension" and thriller aspects were practically non-existent. And I disliked Grey so much that even when she was in mortal peril I didn't care.
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a b "The Rape of Nanking". Penguin Group USA. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27 . Retrieved 2007-07-22.
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Beatrice Clare Dunkel (born Clare Damaris Bastin; [1] pen names, Mo Hayder and Theo Clare; 2 January 1962 – 27 July 2021) was a British author. Earlier in her life she worked as an actress and model under the name Candy Davis and appeared as Miss Belfridge in the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served?. She went on to write novels as Mo Hayder. [3] [4] She won an Edgar Award in 2012.
Set in 1990, the present story follows an Englishwoman known only as “Grey” who is obsessed with the Nanking Massacre after reading about it in one of her parents’ history books while staying at a mental hospital at the tender age of 13. In particular, she is obsessed with finding out about one specific atrocity that happened during the Massacre and whether it actually happened or whether it’s all in her imagination, like how her doctors and nurses often said when she brought it up. When Grey left the hospital, she entered into London University and continued her quest there, only this time, she found a small glimmer of hope in the form of an academic journal that states that there are two films of the Massacre. One film was the real-life film of missionary John Magee, who was in China on a missionary trip and documented the horrors that went down in Nanking, but the other, fictional film was made by Shi Chongming, an elderly Chinese college professor currently living in Japan who survived the Massacre. There are sections of this book that are brutal. That are intensely hard to read. And there are themes throughout the book that might be triggers for some people.
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