Better yet it is written by a 17-year-old girl Fuka-Eri who is beautiful. It is raw, needs a lot of work, but has captivated his heart. Into Tengo’s life comes a manuscript he is to judge for a literary competition called Air Chrysalis. Back then Aomame was living with Witness parents and living a strict religious life, Tengo himself was forced to go house to house with his subscription collecting father every Sunday, always missing the pleasures of childhood. It has affected both of them for the next twenty years. By chance Tengo and Aomame, although complete strangers in Tokyo as adults, were once connected when they were ten years old by one simple moment when he held her hand at school. Tengo wants to be a writer but is being strung along by an unscrupulous publisher and gets by teaching Math at a Crammer. She teaches women self-defence and in private dispatches abusers to an early grave. It was a natural progression for her in a world where men behave badly to women. His writing is spare and his characters are almost never heroic and indeed often tortured by self-doubt, but somehow they get under your skin and his two leads in this tale are no different.Īomame (Green Peas) is a fitness instructor and part-time assassin.
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