ピスタチオ [Pisutachio]

by Kaho Nashiki, 梨木 香歩

结束了在非洲肯尼亚的工作，回到绿意盎然的日本武藏野，以写作为生。十一年后的某日，她接到去非洲采访的邀请。随后，老犬的病痛、野鸭的迁徙、寒潮的移动、“巫医”的民间传说、友人的死讯……不寻常的迹象进入了棚的生活。如同被召唤一般，她回到了非洲。在内战疮痍之地，名叫纳卡多的女 子在找寻内心失落的碎片。她和棚面临的是……

这个故事，关于生与死的轮回、水与风的循环。

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“死者需要可以抱着入眠的故事。”

故事里的角色说道。

或许正因如此，

幻想文学作家梨木香步创作了这部小说，

关于生与死的轮回、风与水的循环。

290 pages, Tankobon Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Kaho Nashiki (Japanese: 梨木香歩 | Chinese: 梨木香步) (1959–) was born in Kagoshima Prefecture and graduated from Doshisha University in Kyoto. She writes for both children and adults, and much of her writing has fantasy-like motifs with religious or spiritual elements. Her 1994 novel about a girl and her grandmother, Nishi no majo ga shinda (The Witch of the West is Dead), received the JAWC New Talent Award, the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award, and the Niimi Nankichi Children's Literature Award, becoming a huge bestseller that was adapted into a movie. Her other works include Uraniwa (Back Yard), which won the 1995 Fantasy Award for Children's Literature, and Numachi no aru mori o nukete (Through the Swampy Woods), which garnered the 2005 Sense of Gender Award and the 2006 Murasaki Shikibu Literary Prize. Her children's books include Penki-ya (The Painter) and Kanizuka engi (Crab Mound Tale).