The Grass-Cutting Sword
128 pages
|Published: 15 Aug 2006
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ISBN: 9780809556779
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Prime Books/Wildside Press
Publication date: 15 August 2006
Description
A new novel by the author of The Labyrinth and Yume No Hon, The Grass-Cutting Sword explores the strange landscape of primeval Japan, from the Heaven-Spanning Bridge to the hellish Root-Country: the troubled trickster Susanoo-no-Mikoto, god of wind and storms, is banished from heaven and wanders the earth, lost in human form, in search of his demonic mother and charged with the defeat of an eight-headed serpent . . .