Paprika
By: Yasutaka Tsutsui ; translated from the Japanese by Andrew Driver
Contributors: Driver, Andrew
Series: Vintage contemporaries original
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780307389183; 9780307377272
Subjects: FICTION / Literary
Work titles: Papurika
Description: "Widely acknowledged as Yasutaka Tsutsui's masterpiece, Paprika unites his surreal, quirky imagination with a compelling, haunting narrative. When prototype models of a device for entering into patients' dreams go missing at the Institute for Psychiatric Research, it transpires that someone is using them to manipulate people's dreams and drive them insane. Threatened both personally and professionally, brilliant psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba has to journey into the world of fantasy to fight her mysterious opponents. As she delves ever deeper into the imagination, the borderline between dream and reality becomes increasingly blurred, and nightmares begin to leak into the everyday realm. The scene is set for a final showdown between the dream detective and her enemies, with the subconscious as their battleground, and the future of the waking world at stake"--