Böcker av Shinji Kajio

"Emanon Volume 4 tells the story of her existence in that odd decade called the 1980s, as Emanon's latest incarnation grows from a grade schooler who seeks to conceal her intelligence, to a teen trying to avoid a relationship with the superhuman classmate pursuing her, to a young adult facing the death from old age of her best friend Hikari--a mortal time-jumper whose own life has crossed that of Emanon many times in the past, and will do so again many times in the future...but who dies at last in the here and now."--

Japan has always had its own vampire tradition, and has eagerly naturalized Western vampires and vampire literature to produce exotic new hybrids and species of horror, of terror, and of sensual, exquisite beauty. Here are a few of their masterpieces.The Japanese word for vampire is ky¿ketsuki, which translates literally to "blood-sucking monster," but the literary tradition is far, far more complex.The practice of Buddhism permeates Japan, and burials are almost always by cremation... leaving the Count and his relatives with no coffins to sleep in! But there is more than one way to sip a little blood, as these authors reveal. Thanks to Bram Stoker, Christopher Lee, and countless others who have popularized the Western vampire, modern Japanese authors have an extensive range of traditions and tales to weave into their own creations.Contents Introduction - Raechel Dumas A Cultural Dynasty of Beautiful Vampires: Japan's Acceptance, Modifications, and Adaptations of Vampires - Shimokusu Masaya Blue Lady - Inoue Masahiko Kingdom - Asukabe Katsunori The Stone Castle - Kikuchi Hideyuki The One-Legged Woman - Okamoto Kid¿ Vampire - Hikage J¿kichi The Crimson Cloak - Asamatsu Ken Vow - Sunaga Asahiko The Husk Heir - Kajio Shinji A Piece of Butterfly's Wing - Kamon Nanami Unnatural - Okuda Tetsuya Paradise Missing - Iino Fumihiko Dracula's House - Fukuzawa Tetsuz¿ Birth of a Vampire - Konaka Chiaki Halvires - Mikawa Y¿ Parasol - Inoue Masahiko

The fourth book of our well-received Speculative Japan series introduces new talents from Japan, and fresh new stories by some of the outstanding authors we've introduced to the English-speaking world already. From deep in the mountains of the Japanese countryside to the plains of frigid Pluto, from a warm South Pacific isle to a freezing mountainside, to Mars or inside a lonely psyche... a positive smorgasbord of speculative enjoyment, in English for the first time!