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On a summer afternoon, Tsukiko and her former high school teacher have prepared and eaten somen noodles together."Tell me a story from long ago," Sensei says."I wasn't alive long ago," Tsukiko says, "but should I tell you a story from when I was little?""Please do," Sensei replies, and so Tsukiko tells him that, when she was a child, she awakened one day to find something with a pale red face and something with a dark red face in her room, arguing with each other. They had human bodies, long noses, and wings. They were tengu, creatures that appear in Japanese folktales.The tengu attach themselves to Tsukiko and begin to follow her everywhere. Where did they come from and why are they here? And what other invisible and unacknowledged forces are acting upon Tsukiko's seemingly peaceful world?.
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Kawakami Hiromi () born April 1, 1958, is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction. Born in Tokyo, Kawakami graduated from Ochanomizu Women's College in 1980. She made her debut as "Yamada Hiromi" in NW-SF No. 16, edited by Yamano Koichi and Yamada Kazuko, in 1980 with the story ("Diptera") , and also helped edit some early issues of NW-SF in the 1970s. She reinvented herself as a writer and wrote her first book, a collection of short stories entitled ) published in 1994. Her novel ) is a love story between a woman in her thirties and a man in his sixties. She is also known as a literary critic and a provocative essayist. (from Wikipedia)
