Four people intent on killing themselves meet through the suicide website Black Paradox: Maruso, a nurse who despairs about the future; Taburo, a man who is tortured by his doppelganger; Pii-tan, an engineer with his own robot clone; and Baracchi, a woman who agonizes about the birthmark on her face. They wander together in search of the perfect death, fatefully opening a door that leads them to a rather bizarre destiny…
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Contemporary, intimate, bleak and spare.
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- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Junji Itō
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 248
- Publisher
- ECC Ediciones, Viz Media
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9788416374243
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