Abstract

To which otherworldly realm does your town's shopping district connect?

A "journey to the unknown with dancing" from Denpow Torishima, a magician of words and images!

Miyahara, a translator, is asked by his sister to look after her cat, and ends up staying in a strange town. One day, he accidentally steps into a shopping district he'd been warned not to approach. Rescued from the abyss of the shopping district, where the scenery constantly shifts and where he glimpses overlapping otherworldly realms, by a man calling himself Ariadne Ito, he learns that his sister has been made the deity of the otherworldly town. To resolve this situation, he must approach the otherworldly realm through the "dance competition" at the upcoming "Palm Print Festival." Miyahara decides to train hard at the town's dance studio in order to participate in the festival.

Author’s Information

Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1970. In 2011, Torishima won the 2nd Sogen SF Short Story Award for "Sisyphean (Kaikin no To)" , and his collection of short stories with this work as the title, became his debut work, which went on to win the 34th Japan SF Award. Sisyphean has been translated into English in 2018 and into French in 2021, generating a lot of buzz, with Serbian, Russian, and other languages also planned for publication. In 2020, he won the 40th Japan SF Award for his debut novel, "The Hermitage (Yadokari no Hoshi)." His other works include "Nufretsun the Musician (Kanadete no Nufuretsn)."