Description: "Kirino wows with her latest novel . . . [her] elegant writing brings Namima--a tragic, sympathetic heroine--to vivid life. Readers will devour this tragic story and be left transformed." -- Publishers Weekly "Both realistic and dreamlike . . . Kirino writes lyrically as she spins a magical and ethereal tale." -- Kirkus Reviews "Charged with the power of Japanese myth, tempered by the author's resonant prose, and propelled by a young woman's love and sorrow, The Goddess Chronicle is a haunting fable, a literary phantasia." --Alan Brennert, author of Moloka'i and Honolulu "Kirino is a master at creating an atmosphere of unease and distrust between her characters. In her skillful hands we see that the divide between man and woman is greater than the one between humans and gods. . . . [ The Goddess Chronicle ] is a taut, disturbing and timeless tale, filled with rage and pathos for the battles that women have to fight every day, battles which have, apparently, existed from the moment of creation." -- The Guardian (UK) "The central narrative is lyrical, with an impelling storyline that demands attention . . . This is a compelling tale, with foundations in an allegory-rich fable that more than deserves its rejuvenation." -- The Independent (UK) "Kirino enjoys depicting her heavenly characters as capricious and temperamental, much like the Greek gods. Yet despite the very human motivations of all involved, Kirino maintains an air of intriguing supernatural strangeness." -- Metro (UK) "A spectacle that includes multiple layers of opposing forces . . . [Kirino] uniquely depicts an unruly mythological world." -- Shincho Magazine "In her wildly far-reaching tale of relations between gods and men, men and women, life and death, darkness and light, Kirino tells a peripatetic, global, and truly satisfying love story of how it is to be human." --Stella Duffy

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