The Legend of the Chikuye Family
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This is Japan's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"! Read the female legend of the three generations of the Akakushiba family and experience a century-long journey of Japanese culture. On one side are the Yamata no Orochi, clairvoyance, wild raccoon father and son, and the God of Wealth Ebisu in the Yamano Kamiyaku; on the other side are the runaway girls, NEETs, hot-blooded comics, and supernatural craze under the bubble economy! One of the top ten best-selling books of the year at the Japan Bookstore Awards, and a finalist for the Naoki Award and Eiji Yoshikawa Literary Newcomer Award. Read the female legend of the three generations of the Akakushiba family and experience a century-long journey of Japanese culture. My grandmother can see the dead in the past and future with clairvoyance. She walked into the red door of the iron-making family with a prophecy and stepped into the glorious moment before the end of the mythical age. My mother, the delinquent girl who led the bosozoku clan, drove along the Sakura National Highway every night. She wields blood-stained iron tools and uses her youth to fight against the madness of the bubble economy...
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