Abstract

The year is 1967, and a young Japanese man is thinking about the future. On one side of the water, the war is raging in Vietnam; far away on the other side, the Apollo Project has just met with disaster as three astronauts die in a capsule fire. And here and now, on a long nighttime ferry ride back home, he will meet and fall in love with a mysterious young woman who carries a past deeper and more profound than his dreams and fears of tomorrow. Her name, she jokes, is no name-Emanon...and she can never be forgotten, any more than she can forget...

Author’s Information

Shinji Kajio – Original Author
Born in Kumamoto Prefecture in 1947. He began writing novels during his boyhood and made his debut as a writer in 1971 with "Pearls for Mia."
He has continued to focus mainly on short stories. His representative works include "The Earth is Plain Yogurt" (winner of the Seiun Award), "Uncharted Planet Key Largo" (winner of the Kumamoto Nichinichi Literary Prize), and "Salamander Annihilation" (winner of the Japan SF Grand Prize).
In 2003, his novel "Yomigaeri" was adapted into a film, and both the original work and the movie became major hits.

Kenji Tsuruta – Illustrator
Born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1961.
He made his debut in 1986 when "Isn’t the Universe Wide and Wonderful?" was published in Comic Magazine "Morning".
He is also active as an illustrator and won the Seiun Award in the Art category in both 2000 and 2001.