Publisher's Synopsis
Miyuki Miyabe is a Japanese writer of genre fiction. She has won numerous Japanese literary awards, including the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature, the Shiba Ryotaro Prize, the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize, and the Naoki Prize. This is a beautiful, sad and extremely gentle, thought-provoking monster story. It talks about how people's inexplicable fear of strange and established images masks their understanding and pursuit of truth.
