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Dendera / written by Yuya Sato ; translated by Nathan A. Collins and Edwin Hawkes.

Title
Dendera / written by Yuya Sato ; translated by Nathan A. Collins and Edwin Hawkes.
Author
Satō, Yūya, 1980-
Publication
San Francisco : Haikasoru, [2015]

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Additional Authors
  • Collins, Nathan
  • Hawkes, Edwin
Description
360 pages; 21 cm
Summary
"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"--
Series Statement
Dendera ; 1
Subject
  • Older people > Japan > Fiction
  • FICTION / Science Fiction / General
  • FICTION / Contemporary Women
  • FICTION / Satire
  • Older people
  • Roman
  • Japanisch
  • Frau
  • Hohes Alter
  • Sterben
  • Berg
  • Japan
Genre/Form
  • Science fiction
  • Fiction
Note
  • "Original Japanese edition published by SHINCHOSHA Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo" [2009] -- Verso title page.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781421571737 (paperback)
  • 1421571730 (paperback)
LCCN
^^2014042414
OCLC
  • 895256433
  • SCSB-10971232
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library