May 23, 2025
This is a little hidden gem that dazzles with its audacious blend of surrealism and heart. A Mixture of naturalism and dreamlike reality. This anthology weaves together bizarre, enchanting tales where reality and fantasy blur in the most unexpected ways: a girl swaps faces with her puddle reflection, children fret over a mermaid trapped in a polluted river, and cats steal the visages of the deceased. Each story feels like a cryptic puzzle, blending existential musings with playful absurdity. Ura’s imagination runs wild, crafting worlds where fairies are souvenir keychains, wind spirits disrupt gym classes, and humans hunt humanoid beings to extinction; all narrated with
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a quiet, haunting beauty.
What truly astonishes is how Ura channels the spirit of Latin American magical realism (think Borges and Cortazar's tales)99 through a distinctly Japanese lens. The result is a collection both familiar and alien, where every page invites readers to question what’s “real.”
For lovers of the uncanny, the bizarre and the poetic is a must-read.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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