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Japan Fantasy Novel Grand Award にほんファンタジーノベルたいしょう

Edition 18 (2006)

Fantasy novel

Winners

2 people
Hideyuki Niki にき ひでゆき grand prize

In Tang-dynasty China, Wang Bian, who lives idly on the wealth of his former elite magistrate father, meets a beautiful girl named Bokuboku at Mount Huangtu. She is an immortal who has lived for countless millennia, and he becomes her disciple, setting out on a journey through heaven and earth in this Chinese fantasy.

A beautiful immortal weary of eternal life and a timid young man travel through heaven and earth.

352 pages
Tang-dynasty ChinaImmortalsMaster and discipleJourneys
Asako Horikawa ほりかわ あさこ excellence award

Ten years after the conflict between the Northern and Southern Courts, a celebrated courtesan is murdered in a Kyoto recovering its peace. This historical fantasy follows the police official Ryusetsu as he pursues the truth behind a crime foretold in an uncanny song.

In early Muromachi Kyoto, an investigator follows the mystery of a murder foretold in an uncanny song.

298 pages
Muromachi periodKyotosupernatural phenomenamurder mysteryhistorical fantasy