The Girl Who Became a Fish: Maiden's Bookshelf

Another spectacular collaboration from the Maiden's Bookshelf series, this dark and intense fable by the great giant of postward literature is brought to vivid life by contemporary master Nekosuke.Suwa, a charcoal burner's daughter, lives together with her father in a small village at a foot of a mountain so remote it doesn't even appear on maps.Slowly she comes to realize the dark futility of her life, leading to a strange and elliptical transformation...Dazai depicts the adolescent awakening to death and the desire to escape through this quiet and ominous tale.