An irresistible mix of imagination, satire, and humor, these stories by acclaimed Japanese author Yasutaka Tsutsui imagine the consequences of a world where the fantastic and the mundane collide.?The
Shame in the Blood (Shinobugawa) is considered one of the finest contemporary love stories in all of modern Japanese literature. The narrator, a young college student, has had two brothers disappear,
Scarred by the death or disappearance of so many members of his family, the unnamed narrator of Shame in the Blood (Shinobugawa) is tormented by the fear that his blood is cursed. Then he meets Shino
