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The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so spoilt, so taken with the very act of living that they don't remember long.
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Our gods did not come to us in any specific form, but we held them in our hearts and understood them in our own way.
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… I don’t know how best to explain how I felt at that moment. Perhaps, for the first time, it was the sadness of knowing that the world had no place for me.
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The words I speak, the phrases I weave together, are born from the very emotions I embody.
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When your companion dies, all the time you would have shared together dies as well. It was lonely for the departed, but far more so for the one left behind.
About Natsuo Kirino
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From internationally bestselling crime writer Natsuo Kirino comes a mythical feminist noir about family secrets, broken loyalties, and the search from truth in a deceitful world.
In a place like no other, on a mystical island in the shape of tear drop, two sisters are born into a family of oracles. Kamikuu is admired far and wide for her otherworldly beauty; small and headstrong Namima learns to live in her sister’s shadow. On her sixth birthday, Kamikuu is chosen to become the next Oracle, serving the realm of light, while Namima is forced to serve the realm of darkness—destined to spend eternity guiding the spirits of the deceased to the underworld.
As the sisters serve opposite fates, Namima embarks on a journey that takes her from the experience of first love to the aftermath of scalding betrayal. Caught in an elaborate web of treachery, she travels between the land of the living a
Book details
- First published
- 2008
- Author
- Natsuo Kirino
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Goodreads rating
- 3.73 (4k ratings)
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