When jaded 48-year-old scriptwriter Harada visits Tokyo's old entertainment district where he grew up, he encounters a likeable working man who is the spitting image of his dead father. Lonely, nostalgic, and willing to believe the unbelievable, Harada follows the mysterious man, embarking on a bittersweet journey into the womb of a city whose living inhabitants have perhaps changed too rapidly and lost their souls.

While the visits to his parents seem invigorating to Harada, his beautiful and strangely vulnerable neighbor Kei insists that he stop seeing them for his own good. A battle for the soul - Harada's, a tired city's - ensues in this thinking man's ghost story.

Hello, I'm a travelling book!!!
I've been to many places and now I am visiting the

BookCrossing Anniversary Convention in Athens.



Take me with you, read me and then please release me again, so that I can make new friends and continue my journey.

Taken from the convention, sounds like an interesting read

** reserved for Blue_Berry

Took me a while to get into this book because the language was a bit weird, but perhaps translating from Japanese can sometimes do that? Anyway, after initial discomfort I found myself really enjoying the story, as strange as it was!

Moving on to the next reader now. Enjoy :)

Received with thanks! Looks deliciously creepy! :)

Really original story, I read this in few days, couldn't wait to see how it ends up. I always like the slightly understated Japanese way of narration. I hope to find another reader for this soon.