Publisher's Synopsis
Miyuki Miyabe is a Japanese writer of genre fiction. She has won numerous Japanese literary awards, including the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature, the Shiba Ryotaro Prize, the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize, and the Naoki Prize. This book contains eight short stories throughout the ten years of the writer's career, knocking off our blind obedience and superstition in the reality of the spooky sprite, light the ghost lamp that leads to hope.