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I͡APONSKIĬ PEREVAL DI͡ATLOVA ODIN IZ SAMYKh KULʹTOVYKh KhONKAKU-T͡SIKLOVOT OSNOVATELI͡A I PERVOGO PREZIDENTA KLUBA KhONKAKUĖLIS ARISUGAVA - VTOROĬ PO IZVESTNOSTI POSLE SODZI SIMADY AVTOR I͡APONSKIKh NEOKLASSIChESKIKh DETEKTIVNYKh GOLOVOLOMOKLAUREAT PREMII KhONKAKU, A TAKZhE PREMIĬ "DETEKTIVNYE PISATELI I͡APONII" i "I͡APONSKAI͡A DETEKTIVNAI͡A LITERATURA"Vulkan zasypaet. Prosypaetsi͡a ubiĭt͡sa…Gruppa studentov, sredi kotorykh chetvero uchastnikov Kluba izuchenii͡a detektivov iz Kioto, razbivaet lagerʹ na spi͡ashchem vulkane I͡Abukii͡ama. Pod prekrasnoĭ polnoĭ lunoĭ oni besedui͡ut u kostra i igrai͡ut v rassledovanie ubiĭstv, po zhrebii͡u vybirai͡a, kto iz nikh budet ubiĭt͡seĭ, a kto zhertvoĭ. Kazhetsi͡a, delo idet k druzhbe, kotorai͡a ostanetsi͡a na vsi͡u zhiznʹ. No idillii͡a prevrashchaetsi͡a v koshmar…Vulkan prosypaetsi͡a, izverzheniem zavalivaet putʹ vniz: oni otrezany ot mira. I v ėtot moment odnogo iz nikh ubivai͡ut po-nastoi͡ashchemu. Na zemle ri͡adom s telom obnaruzhivaetsi͡a bukva Y. Chto ėto? Podpisʹ ubiĭt͡sy? Ili ukazyvai͡ushchee na nego predsmertnoe poslanie zhertvy? V atmosfere zhutkoĭ zagadki mir druzhby i bezzabotnosti rushitsi͡a, ustupai͡a mesto podozrenii͡am, strakhu i otchai͡annomu poisku istiny…Ėta zhertva ne budet edinstvennoĭ. Avtor v luchshikh tradit͡sii͡akh khonkaku brosaet chitateli͡u vyzov: vy znaete rovno stolʹko, skolʹko znaet tot, kto razgadaet ubiĭstvennui͡u golovolomku; smozhete li sdelatʹ ėto sami?_____________________________________________________________"Ukazatʹ prichinu privlekatelʹnosti mira Arisugavy ne tak uzh slozhno. Istochnik ocharovanii͡a zdesʹ ocheviden. Ego samye izvestnye detektivy - chleny universitetskogo kruzhka po izuchenii͡u detektivnykh romanov. Oni stalkivai͡utsi͡a s zaputannymi ubiĭstvami i berutsi͡a za ikh rassledovanie. Uchastniki kruzhka bolʹshe vsego li͡ubi͡at trudnye zadachi, logicheskie golovolomki i sorevnui͡utsi͡a drug s drugom v razgadyvanii taĭn. Takim obrazom, knigi Arisugavy - o molodosti, chto delaet ikh dostupnymi, legkimi dli͡a vosprii͡atii͡a. No v to zhe vremi͡a oni garantirui͡ut intellektualʹnoe napri͡azhenie na urovne luchshikh veshcheĭ Zolotogo veka detektiva. Blagodari͡a takomu vot paradoksu Arisugava polʹzuetsi͡a ogromnoĭ populi͡arnostʹi͡u". - Sodzi Simada, geniĭ sovremennogo khonkaku.

THE JAPANESE DYATLOV PASS IS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC HONKAKU CYCLONES OF THE FOUNDER AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE HONKAKUELIS ARISUGAWA CLUB, THE SECOND MOST FAMOUS AUTHOR OF JAPANESE NEOCLASSICAL DETECTIVE PUZZLES AFTER SOJI SHIMADA, WINNER OF THE HONKAKU PRIZE, AS WELL AS THE DETECTIVE WRITERS OF JAPAN AND JAPANESE DETECTIVE LITERATURE AWARDSThe volcano is falling asleep. The killer wakes up…A group of students, including four members of the Kyoto Detective Study Club, are camping on the dormant Yabukiyama volcano. Under a beautiful full moon, they talk around a campfire and play murder investigation, choosing by lot which of them will be the killer and which will be the victim. It seems that we are heading towards a friendship that will last a lifetime. But the idyll turns into a nightmare... the volcano wakes up, an eruption blocks the way down: they are cut off from the world. And at that moment, one of them is being killed for real. The letter Y is found on the ground next to the body. What's it? The killer's signature? Or the victim's suicide note pointing at him? In an atmosphere of terrible mystery, the world of friendship and carefree collapses, giving way to suspicion, fear and a desperate search for the truth.…This sacrifice will not be the only one. The author, in the best honkaku tradition, challenges the reader: do you know exactly as much as the one who solves the murderous puzzle knows; can you do it yourself?_____________________________________________________________"It's not too difficult to point out the reason for the attractiveness of Arisugawa's world. The source of the charm here is obvious. His most famous detectives are members of the university circle for the study of detective novels. They encounter intricate murders and take up their investigation. The participants of the circle are most fond of difficult tasks, logical puzzles and compete with each other in solving mysteries. Thus, Arisugawa's books are about youth, which makes them accessible and easy to read. But at the same time, they guarantee an intellectual tension on the level of the best things of the Golden Age of the detective. Thanks to this paradox, Arisugawa is very popular." — Soji Shimada, the genius of modern honkaku.