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Temple Alley Summer

Author: Sachiko Kashiwaba, Illustrator: Miho Satake

In the middle of the night, Kazu wakes up with a need to go to the bathroom and sees a strange girl leaving his house. A ghost? The next day, Kazu goes to school and is surprised to find the girl in his class. Strangely enough, his classmates say that she has been in their class for a long time! As Kazu pursues the mystery, he learns that the legend of resurrection was passed down in a temple in his town. There are ghosts who resurrect unnoticed and live among humans. A multilayered fantasy work that incorporates a medieval European tale within a Japanese-style narrative.

Rights sold English, Korean, German, Indonesian