The Leopard Mask The Guin Saga: Book One Translated by Alexander O. Smith with Elye J. Alexander Book Sense Science Fiction and Fantasy Top Ten of the Year
With more than a hundred installments and going strong-each new book a bestseller- The Guin Saga is Japan’s top heroic fantasy series. Finally available in paperback, the much-praised American edition of The Leopard Mask is the first of a projected five comprising the saga’s opening ‘Marches Episode.’
In a single day and night of fierce fighting, the Archduchy of Mongaul has overrun its elegant neighbor, Parros. The lost priest kingdom’s surviving royalty, the young twins Rinda and Remus, hide in a forest in the forbidding wild Marches. There they are saved by a mysterious creature with a man’s body and a leopard’s head who has just emerged from a deep sleep and remembers only his name. Guin. ‘Japan’s answer to The Lord of the Rings’ - The Globe and Mail
‘A rousing tale of intrepid heroes, horrid villains and wicked supernatural creatures.’ Publishers Weekly
‘The Guin Saga was the most influential (inspiration for Berserk]. I started reading it in junior high and I’m still reading the new volume every month.’ Berserk-creator Kentaro Miura
About The Author Kaoru Kurimoto, winner of the Edogawa Rampo and Yoshikawa Eiji Awards, lives in Tokyo, Japan.
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