You write your dream on the blank map of Manchuria.
Hosokawa accompanied a secret Japanese spy to Manchuria as an interpreter. Father Krasnikov was sent to expand Russia’s railroad network. SonGoku was tricked by his uncle into moving to a barren land. Suno crossed the sea in search of a nonexistent island depicted on a map. The men are summoned to “Lijiazhen” east of Mukden. They live through half a century of carnage over the “Burning Soil”.
A city appears and disappears.
The half-century from the eve of the Russo-Japanese War to World War II is a tale of wits and carnage that unfolds in a nameless city in Manchuria. A novel of history and fantasy by a rising star in the world of Japanese science fiction.