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title: "Shibumi Unknown Binding – January 1, 2011"
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# Shibumi Unknown Binding – January 1, 2011

**Brand:** trevanian
**Price:** € 42.49
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## Customer Reviews

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    Hel hath no fury ...
  

*by T***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 26, 2012*

As a HUGE fan of Don Winslow, I was brought to Shibumi via his novel Satori which takes the central character of Nicholai Hel, created by Trevanian in this book, and starts to fill in the gap that Shibumi establishes, between Hel's first acts that lead him to become the greatest assassin in the world and his retirement.  It would be literary suicide today to miss out the "action" years but must have seemed revolutionary when this book was first published.  I have to say I prefer Winslow's Hel to Trevanian's even though they are effectively the same person.  There are familiar themes here with the baddies being "Mother" a super-corporation that runs even the CIA, and the retired assassin reluctantly reactivated for one last mission.  You can see elements of Hel in just about every modern spy thriller hero from Bourne to Bauer but I'm afraid the pupils have overtaken the master and there are passages where this book plods not least in a cave exploration that last too long for my taste. Would it have been different if I'd read this first and Satori second?  Perhaps.  Tastes change and what must have seemed super-cool in 1979 seems a little pretentious and self-indulgent 40-odd years later.  But Trevanian created a compelling hero in Hel and Winslow's re-imagining of his 'missing' years could be a source of many great thrillers to come.  For all my misgivings, I feel strangely connected to both books; I was reading Satori when I was in Saigon last year, leaving the city as Hel was arriving, albeit 50 years earlier as the Vietnam War was about to erupt.  This year I went to the Paradise Caves near Dong Hoi and began to understand Trevanian's fascination with caving. Three stars is probably too few but I would read Satori first, if only to see what a great hero Hel could have been.  Then read this. Then wait for The Don to give us another taste of Hel.

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    A page turner that stands the test of time!!!
  

*by A***B on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 4, 2019*

I read this book when it was first published in 1979 and over the past forty years have recommended it many, many times; as recently as two months ago.Most people would be familiar with the author for his well known book The Eiger Sanction, which was made into a movie.This book would be great reading anytime, but really a wonderful read on a long airplane ride or lounging on a beach or poolside while on vacation.

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    Elective affinities
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 23, 2016*

I owe this passionate reading experience to a friend who knows my Wahlverwandschaften: French, German, Russian, Japanese, and Basque.How incredible it seems that this was published in 1979 -- and presumably written several years earlier, in (mostly American) English. "Zahar hitzak, zuhur hitzak." (Old words, wise words.) We are the world, but our world is still victim of the same enemies.I still have the same Weltanschauung after reading Shibumi, but now I have a stronger sense of sharing awareness of injustices with millions of others, readers and writers and potential activists. This is a novel not about an overendowed assassin but about a hypersensitive activist.sic semper tyrannis.

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