This collection brings together twelve fantastical tales drawing freely on sources from Japanese dynasties, the Renaissance, China, Arabia, and ancient Rome. Moving between fact and invention, story and essay, it unfolds an arabesque-like world.

Twelve fantastical tales that weave together texts from many times and places, tracing the space between fiction and fact.

Kyojin-tachi is a novel that begins with the kidnapping of the protagonist's wife and child, then unsettles both his consciousness and the framework of the story itself. As time, place, and the relationships among characters continually shift, it explores the boundary between reality and fiction in the novel.

An experimental novel that loosens the conventions of realism and unsettles the very ground on which its story stands.