{"id":50154,"date":"2022-12-22T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T17:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=50154"},"modified":"2022-12-17T10:56:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T15:56:02","slug":"the-liminal-zone-by-junji-ito-translated-by-jocelyne-allen-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-liminal-zone-by-junji-ito-translated-by-jocelyne-allen-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Liminal Zone by Junji Ito, translated by Jocelyne Allen [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-49920\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/Liminal-Zone-Junji-Ito-BookDragon-1-560x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/Liminal-Zone-Junji-Ito-BookDragon-1-560x800.jpg 560w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/Liminal-Zone-Junji-Ito-BookDragon-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/>Beyond the countless corpses, Japanese manga auteur Junji Ito\u2019s latest import deftly \u2013 and, of course, ever so gruesomely \u2013 highlights the liminal spaces between life and death, good and evil, waking and sleep.<\/p>\n<p>An engaged couple\u2019s innocent decision to \u201cstop somewhere on a whim\u201d during a trip leads to grave tragedy in \u201cWeeping Woman Way.\u201d A manipulative, philandering boarding school principal finally gets deserved justice in \u201cMadonna.\u201d A dying man gets caught up in \u201cThe Spirit Flow of Aokigahara,\u201d possibility achieving eternity. A serial killer manages to invade the dreams of an innocent neighbor in \u201cSlumber.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the globally renowned creator of such intricate, detailed graphic horror on the page, Ito certainly seems to have quite an unexpectedly playful humility he tends to reveal in his afterwords. His confessions here include references to his own COVID-19 lockdown, his difficulty with keeping to page-count limits (\u201cunbecoming of a professional,\u201d he readily admits), and being \u201cout of good ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Readers need not worry: this quartet, smoothly translated into English by Jocelyne Allen, is another dare-not-read-alone-at-night delight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Liminal-Zone-\/pid=9766747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Graphic Novels,&#8221; <em>Booklist Online,<\/em> December 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2021 (Japan), 2022 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the countless corpses, Japanese manga auteur Junji Ito\u2019s latest import deftly \u2013 and, of course, ever so gruesomely \u2013 highlights the liminal spaces between life and death, good and evil, waking and sleep. 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