A dropout from an elite Houston-based program for teens is on a visit to a private island. Its mistress, virtually marooned there, surrounds herself with geniuses, especially of the young and female kindone of whom ends up headless one fine morning. The top-selling novelist year by year in his native Japan, prolific palindromic phenomenon NISIOISIN made his debut when he was only twenty with this Mephisto Award winner, a whoduni and locked-room mystery at once old-school and eye-opening. Previously published stateside by Del Rey, the translation has been retitled and revised just in time for the long-requested animated series based on illustrator takes character concepts.
- | Author: NISIOISIN
- | Publisher: Vertical
- | Publication Date: Jan 24, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 322 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1945054212
- | ISBN-13: 9781945054211