However, it was not until Kirino was forty-one that she made her major debut. She got married to her present husband when she turned twenty-four, and began writing professionally, after giving birth to her daughter, at age thirty. Kirino showed glimpses of her talent as a writer in her early stages-she was a child with great deal of curiosity, and also a child who could completely immerse herself in her own unique world of imagination.Īfter completing her law degree, Kirino worked in various fields before becoming a fictional writer including scheduling and organizing films to be shown in a movie theater, and working as an editor and writer for a magazine publication. Kirino's father, being an architect, took the family to many cities, and Kirino spent her youth in Sendai, Sapporo, and finally settled in Tokyo when she was fourteen, which is where she has been residing since. NATSUO KIRINO ( 桐野夏生), born in 1951 in Kanazawa (Ishikawa Prefecture) was an active and spirited child brought up between her two brothers, one being six years older and the other five years younger than her. A provocative, fantastical saga, The Goddess Chronicle tells a sumptuous story of sex, murder, gods and goddesses, and bittersweet revenge. Caught in an elaborate web of treachery, she travels between the land of the living and the Realm of the Dead, seeking vengeance and closure.Īt the heart of this exquisitely dark tale, Kirino masterfully reimagines the ancient Japanese creation myth of Izanami and Izanaki. On her sixth birthday, Kamikuu is chosen to become the next Oracle, serving the realm of light, while Namima is forced to serve the realm of darkness-destined to spend eternity guiding the spirits of the deceased to the underworld.Īs the sisters serve opposite fates, Namima embarks on a journey that takes her from the experience of first love to the aftermath of scalding betrayal. Kamikuu is admired far and wide for her otherworldly beauty small and headstrong Namima learns to live in her sister’s shadow. In a place like no other, on a mystical island in the shape of tear drop, two sisters are born into a family of oracles. From internationally bestselling crime writer Natsuo Kirino comes a mythical feminist noir about family secrets, broken loyalties, and the search from truth in a deceitful world.
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