[DeepL Translation - needs review] Introduction to Volume 1: Sayo, a fourth grader, lives with her mother. One day, she comes across a mysterious book titled "Seven Nights" in the library and wanders into the world of night with her classmate, Tomoda-kun. What will become of their adventure through the seven nights?
(Translator: DeepL)
Heads up: this is not a trilogy of 3 books, it is a single long book in 3 volumes. The author is the same Hiromi Kawakami whose short story 神様 appears in “Read Real Japanese: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers.”
The heroine Sayo is a little girl in 4th grade who loves reading, especially classic Western children’s books like fairy tales and the Chronicles of Narnia. The story is set in 1977, in a world without internet or smartphones, when expectations for how boys and girls should behave