Hideo Furukawa was born in 1966 in Fukushima, and is highly regarded for the richness of his storytelling and his willingness to experiment; he changes his style with every new book. His best-known novel is the 2008Holy Family, an epic work of alternate history set in northeastern Japan. He has received the Mystery Writers of Japan Award, the Japan SF Grand Prize and the Yukio Mishima award.
Translator David Boyd brings the slight and endearing story into
riffing, confessional English
*Wall Street Journal*
The story is elegant and compressed, an investigation into memory,
its faults and the arbitrary markers that we set down to locate
ourselves, and to form our perspective on the present
*TLS*
In this refreshing book, Furukawa proves to be an imaginative and
captivating storyteller
*Publishers Weekly*
The prose in this short novel fizzes.. language is used in
startling and unique ways. Even the puns work in translation
*Japan Times*
Not only readable but very enjoyable... bound to leave you
engrossed in self-questioning
*The Japan Society*
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