Red Girls
The Legend of the Akakuchibas
Published on 7. May 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-1-4215-7857-6 (ISBN)
Description
When the Outland People abandoned a baby girl on the outskirts of a village, few imagined that she would grow up to marry into the illustrious Akakuchiba family, much less that she would develop clairvoyant abilities and become matriarch of the illustrious ironworking clan. Her daughter shocks the village further by joining a motorcycle gang and becoming a famous manga artist. The Outlander's granddaughter Toko-well, she's nobody at all. A nobody worth entrusting with the secret that her grandmother was a murderer.
This is Toko's story.
When the Outland People abandoned a baby girl on the outskirts of a village, few imagined that she would grow up to marry into the illustrious Akakuchiba family, much less that she would develop clairvoyant abilities and become matriarch of the illustrious ironworking clan. Her daughter shocks the village further by joining a motorcycle gang and becoming a famous manga artist. The Outlander's granddaughter Toko-well, she's nobody at all. A nobody worth entrusting with the secret that her grandmother was a murderer.
This is Toko's story.
This is Toko's story.
When the Outland People abandoned a baby girl on the outskirts of a village, few imagined that she would grow up to marry into the illustrious Akakuchiba family, much less that she would develop clairvoyant abilities and become matriarch of the illustrious ironworking clan. Her daughter shocks the village further by joining a motorcycle gang and becoming a famous manga artist. The Outlander's granddaughter Toko-well, she's nobody at all. A nobody worth entrusting with the secret that her grandmother was a murderer.
This is Toko's story.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
Target group
US School Grade: From Fourth Grade to Seventh Grade, Interest Age: From 14 to 17 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
417 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4215-7857-6 (9781421578576)
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Person
Kazuki Sakuraba was born in 1971. She began publishing while still in college. Her early Gosick light novels were best sellers and were translated into English, and her adult fiction is also popular and critically acclaimed. Red Girls won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 2007 and was translated into English in 2015. Watashi no otoko, a suspense novel about an incestuous relationship, won the Naoki Prize for popular fiction in 2008.