![]() ![]() ![]() I didn’t know anything about this myth of Izanaki and Izanami before reading the book – and you don’t really need to but I guess it would enhance your reading of it. Yet it also remains true to her female-focused narratives, with this being a more feminist rebelling.Īpparently when Kirino’s books, especially Out, were first published in Japan, many criticized her plots and one radio DJ refused to speak to her because in Out, a woman murders her husband.Īlso, later I realize that The Goddess Chronicle is part of the Canongate myth series and that Kirino was invited by the publisher to write a story based on ancient Japanese myth. It feels like a bit of a gamble for Natsuo Kirino, best known for her crime/mystery novels, to have written this retelling of the Japanese creation myth. That was the ‘law’ of the island – that was our ‘destiny’. Our paths were more distinctly different, as if she were to follow the day and I the night or she the inner road and I the outer, she to traverse the heavens and I the earth. “And so it came to pass that sisters who had been the best of friends were forced to follow separate paths. ![]()
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