Music professor Theodor Werner obtains a recording of a mysterious organist known as Hans Reinig, who appears out of nowhere at a church in Buenos Aires. The playing is hauntingly reminiscent of his old friend Josef Richter, a gifted organist who lost the use of his right side in a car accident nine years ago and vanished from the hospital without a trace. Could Reinig be Josef? Built around the sacred organ music of Bach, this debut novel shifts seamlessly from mystery to science fiction to fantasy, tracing a man's obsessive devotion to music and his will to transcend human limits.

"I want to become music" — those words set in motion something between miracle and tragedy.

In the small southern nation of Ishanai, the people struggle against modernization and colonization. Can culture and pride survive the march of force? Toko, a female academic on a research expedition, ventures into the jungle and encounters Yan, the leader of a guerrilla movement. As she witnesses one tragic vision of her country's future after another, she confronts impossible choices: submission or resistance, violence or nonviolence. 'Toko, does the world hate us?' This Japan Fantasy Novel Grand Award Excellence Prize-winning novel asks what the weakest resisters can truly grasp.

'Toko, does the world hate us?' A story of a guerrilla leader and a lone woman, wagering the fate of a small nation.

In October 1996, systems engineer Kaminono Toshiyuki begins searching for his best friend A, who has vanished without a trace, leaving behind only a single PC-9801VM computer. Together with private detective Saeki Keijiro, he follows the threads of the mystery deep into the early Internet, where they are led to a shadowy presence known only as 'Aoneko' — the Blue Cat. A mysterious story set against the dawn of the networked age, unraveling the truth behind a disappearance and the identity of an enigmatic online figure.

A friend vanishes, leaving only a computer behind. In the depths of the early Internet lurks a mystery called 'Aoneko.' A fantastic mystery set at the dawn of the networked age.