{"product_id":"the-sacred-era-a-novel-paperback-softback-9780816699865","title":"The Sacred Era; A Novel (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816699865","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Sacred Era\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAramaki Yoshio (Author), Baryon Tensor Posadas (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816699865\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 13 June 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.364 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A visionary science fiction novel, in which the devil lives in the details, literally, \u003ci\u003eThe Sacred Era\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling look at belief, collapse, and transcendence.\"-Nick Mamatas, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Future is Japanese\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePhantasm Japan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Sacred Era\u003c\/i\u003e is the most important work of Yoshio Aramaki, talented Japanese science fiction writer. This brilliant post-apocalyptic tale explores past and present, sacred and heretic, inner and outer space, and the beginning and end of life through the eyes of a young pilgrim to a mysterious planet.\"-Motoko Tanaka, Tamagawa University, author of \u003ci\u003eApocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Engrossing in both its imagery and philosophical exploration, \u003ci\u003eThe Sacred Era\u003c\/i\u003e traverses the far reaches of the cosmos but ultimately revels in the personal and the human.\"-\u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This wildly-inventive story about one man’s journey to a mythical planet will leave you dizzy (in a good way).\"-\u003ci\u003eTor.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"So ambitious and unfettered that you won’t read many books like it.\"-\u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The plot weaves together theology, illusions and scientific discovery in an imaginative and dream-like way that leaves an impression.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Japan Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Yoshio Aramaki’s unique vision of a complicated, dystopian future is masterfully crafted and intellectually engaging.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Quarterly Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe magnum opus of a Japanese master of speculative fiction, and a book that established Yoshio Aramaki as a leading representative of the genre, \u003ci\u003eThe Sacred Era\u003c\/i\u003e is part post-apocalyptic world, part faux-religious tract, and part dream narrative. In a distant future ruled by a new Papal Court serving the Holy Empire of Igitur, a young student known only as K arrives at the capital to take The Sacred Examination, a text that will qualify him for metaphysical research service with the court. His performance earns him an assignment in the secret Planet Bosch Research Department; this in turn puts him on the trail of a heretic executed many years earlier, whose headless ghost is still said to haunt the Papal Court, which carries him on an interplanetary pilgrimage across the Space Taklamakan Desert to the Planet Loulan, where time stands still, and finally to the mysterious, supposedly mythical Planet Bosch, a giant, floating plant-world that once orbited Earth but has somehow wandered 1,000 light years away. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eK’s journey to this strange world, seemingly sprung from Hieronymus Bosch’s \u003ci\u003eGarden of Earthly Delights\u003c\/i\u003e, is a journey into inner and outer space, as the novel traffics in mystic and metaphysical questions only to transform them into technical and astrophysical problems, translating the substance of religious and mythic texts into the language of science fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003eTakayuki Tatsumi\u003cbr\u003eThe Sacred Era\u003cbr\u003eThe Sacred Service Examination\u003cbr\u003eClara Hall\u003cbr\u003eThe Quadrinity\u003cbr\u003eThe Southern Scriptures\u003cbr\u003eMechanical Doll\u003cbr\u003eSpace Clock\u003cbr\u003eSacred Route\u003cbr\u003eThe Garden of Earthly Delights\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670799773976,"sku":"9780816699865","price":15.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-sacred-era-a-novel-paperback-softback-9780816699865","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}