Dendera
By: written by Yuya Sato ; translated by Nathan A. Collins and Edwin Hawkes
Contributors: Collins, Nathan, translator; Hawkes, Edwin, translator
Series: Dendera -- 1
Publisher: Haikasoru
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781421571737
Subjects: Older people; Fiction
Description: "When Kayu Saito wakes up, she is in an unfamiliar place. Taken to a snowy mountainside, she was left there by her family and her village according to the tradition of sacrificing the lives of the elderly for the benefit of the young. Kayu was supposed to have passed quickly into the afterlife. Instead, she finds herself in Dendera, a utopian community built over decades by old women who were abandoned like her. Together, they must now face a new threat: a savage bear who, like them, is female and hungry"--
Notes: "Original Japanese edition published by SHINCHOSHA Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo" [2009] -- Verso title page.