We are pleased to announce that the two-volume set by H. L. Oldie, “Dragon and the Carp”, from the “Pure Land” cycle (“Book 1: The Talisman Doll” and “Book 2: One Hundred Scary Tales”), has just been published by the wonderful Folio Publishing House (Kharkiv) in Ukrainian.

Translated into Ukrainian by Lorina Filonenko.

Welcome to the “Folio” website!

We remind you that the trilogy “To the City and To the World” was also released a few days ago.

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The law of Amida Buddha transformed the Land of the Rising Sun into the Pure Land. From now on, the murderer sacrifices his body to the slain, while he himself descends into hell. Toruyomon Raiden—a samurai from Akayama, an investigator for the Carp-and-Dragon Bureau—investigates cases of violent deaths and miraculous resurrections, already familiar to the reader from the novel “The Carp and the Dragon”.

But even death cannot subdue a man whose soul burns in the fire of passion. And now it is no longer the carp that ascends the waterfall to become a dragon, but the dragon that descends from the heavens to become a carp. Investigator Raiden learns of this, risking his own life.

The dead torment the living, dangerous creatures lurk in the mountain wilderness, and on the Island of the Nine Deaths, events are unfolding that demand the attention of the all-powerful Secret Surveillance Inspectorate.

No one should be killed. But maybe someone can be?