Noperapon, or the Image and Likeness
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RU. Novel, 1998.
Historical urban fantasy, martial arts, mystical thriller; Medieval Japan and modern Ukraine.
Japan of the XV century and Kharkov of the XX. Legendary actors of the "No" theater and our contemporaries, the art of ancient actors and modern karate schools, curved streets of Kyoto and avenues lit with bright neon lights, the meeting at the cemetery with a night creature without face and an advertisement with an amazing slogan: "Your task is to survive". It seems that there is nothing in common between all these things. But there is a man, an ordinary man who was driven out of the frames of time and space in order to win or to perish.
When the young actor Motoyoshi killed a "noperapon"-thieve with a wooden sword, when one man became a mirror and the other a weapon; when Death was approaching the Temple of Clear Waters, and the young postgraduate girl-student sent to the hospital one after another six violators - it means that the times meet, their edges coincide and it becomes impossible to define who had been living yesterday and who is living now, if everyone cherishes deep in soul the wish to possess everything at a time and free of charge...
But since we get what we have wanted we cease to be human... Try to take the place of the heroes of the new novel by H. L. Oldie, and the dull reality of our usual world would seem not so dull to you... and not so real at all.
Published 8 times from 1999 to 2020 (Russia).
