Summer of Evil Spirits Ubume
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A brilliant combination of honkaku detective and mystical thriller. Filled with mysticism, esotericism and Japanese folklore, this is one of the most unusual novels in the history of world detective fiction.
A bookseller-exorcist and a writer are faced with an absolutely incomprehensible crime.
1952, Tokyo.
Strange and sinister events befall the ancient Kuonji family of doctors, who own a private gynecological clinic. Rumors are spreading around the city that the family's youngest daughter has been carrying a child for 20 months and cannot deliver her baby... And her husband Makio has disappeared without a trace from a locked room. Rumors also say that several newborn babies have disappeared from the clinic in recent years. And as punishment for their crimes, the Kuonji family is cursed, and their youngest daughter has become pregnant with a demon baby. Writer and journalist Tatsumi Sekiguchi persuades his friend, the owner of a second-hand bookstore, to take up this business. The bookseller is an onmyoji sorcerer who possesses the technique of exorcising evil spirits and removing obsessions. He is also convinced that there is nothing strange in the world...
A bookseller-exorcist and a writer are faced with an absolutely incomprehensible crime.
1952, Tokyo.
Strange and sinister events befall the ancient Kuonji family of doctors, who own a private gynecological clinic. Rumors are spreading around the city that the family's youngest daughter has been carrying a child for 20 months and cannot deliver her baby... And her husband Makio has disappeared without a trace from a locked room. Rumors also say that several newborn babies have disappeared from the clinic in recent years. And as punishment for their crimes, the Kuonji family is cursed, and their youngest daughter has become pregnant with a demon baby. Writer and journalist Tatsumi Sekiguchi persuades his friend, the owner of a second-hand bookstore, to take up this business. The bookseller is an onmyoji sorcerer who possesses the technique of exorcising evil spirits and removing obsessions. He is also convinced that there is nothing strange in the world...
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