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我是擁有不死之身的肉塊、返老還童的仙藥、能使傷處完好如初的祕藥,賜予眾人長生不老的美夢。來吧!匍匐在我的腳下,我將讓你不老不死,無病無痛,且與天地同壽……
這世上沒有不可思議之事,只存在可能存在之物,只發生可能發生之事。

Traditional Chinese edition of Nuribotoke no utage by Kyogoku Natsuhiko. This intriguing science fiction takes place after WWII. A soldier returns to the village he stationed during the war looking for the elixir of immortality. But he found the entire village had vanished. The mysteries surrounding the elixir didn't just stop there. Weird beings begin to show. Some say, these beings are the people who died of unnatural causes... Book 1 of 2. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

352 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published March 1, 2011

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Natsuhiko Kyogoku

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Natsuhiko Kyogoku ( 京極 夏彦 Kyōgoku Natsuhiko, born March 26, 1963) is a Japanese mystery writer, who is a member of Ōsawa Office. He is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan.

Three of his novels have been turned into feature films; Mōryō no Hako, which won the 1996 Mystery Writers of Japan Award, was also made into an anime TV series, as was Kosetsu Hyaku Monogatari, and his book Loups=Garous was adapted into an anime feature film. Vertical have published his debut novel as The Summer of the Ubume.

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After the re-reading, I realized I don't like this book so much, so I reduce one star, the concept is brilliant and the mystery of the vanished village is very, very intriguing; but sadly the entire book is to freaking long winded (in fact it has been separated into four volumes, four!)
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