When Kayu Saito wakes up, she is in an unfamiliar place. Taken to a snowy mountainside, she was left there by her family and her village according to the tradition of sacrificing the lives of the elderly for the benefit of the young. Kayu was supposed to have passed quickly into the afterlife. Instead, she finds herself in Dendera, a utopian community built over decades by old women who were abandoned like her. Together, they must now face a new threat: a savage bear who, like them, is female and hungry.

About the Author
Yuya Sato, born 1980, is a writer of "strange fiction," which features fantastic or horrific concepts treated in a refined literary style. Some of his short work has appeared in English in the mixed manga/prose anthology series Faust. His novel 1000 Novels and Backbeard won the Yukio Mishima Prize.


Book Information
ISBN 9781421571737
Author Nathan A. Collins
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Haikasoru
Publisher Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
Weight(grams) 336g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 25mm