Octopus

Reissue of the book in a new beautiful design, with illustrations inside! Also included in the book is a new story by Anait Grigoryan, "Kimono Shop 'Takagi-ya'". Life flows calmly and boringly on the small fishing island of Himakajima, lost in the bay of Mikawa. Tourists are rare here, there are few attractions, but there is plenty of local color. A young man from Russia immerses himself in this unusual and amazing foreign way of life. However, he won't be bored - because the typhoon season is coming to the island. What do the mysterious kami-sama have in store for the heroes, are the frightening legends told by the local fishermen true, and is a terrible tsunami really approaching Himakajima? Will the heroes be able to change their fate, hear their own hearts, understand what is truly priceless, and what is just water dust dispersing in the impenetrable mist, and clay shards of broken traps for octopuses... "An excellent short novel by Anait Grigoryan 'Octopus' - a gloomy fairy tale in Japanese colors, a kind of Miyazaki in prose (sorry for the trivial comparison, but when you read it, you will understand that it's hard to resist)." - Galina Yuzefovich By scanning the QR code inside the book, you will find an article "Pictures of life in the Japanese province" by Alexandra Glushchenko, the illustrator of the novel, and "Clay shards of broken traps for octopuses" - fragments that did not make it into the publication (in fact, this is a full-fledged additional story to the novel "Octopus"!), as well as 10 more color illustrations for the book.