Nekomonogatari (white)

Description

Officially the start of MONOGATARI's second arc (White) is written in Hanekawa's perspective. It is the first story in the series that's told in different perspective than Araragi. Launching into new territory that the author hadn't mapped out when he embarked on theseries, NEKOMONOGATARI (White) tells the tale of heroine TsubasaHanekawa from her own perspective, in her own voice-if thatcan hold true for a damaged soul who, depending on who you're asking, suffers from a split personality or a supernatural aberration. The bone-chilling brokenness of her household, where father and mother and daughterkeep three separate sets of cookware in the same kitchen and only ever prepare their own meals, and the profound darkness nurtured in the geniusschoolgirl's heart, come to life, if that is the word, through her self-vivisection. As for our customary unreliable narrator, Araragi, we seem to learn revealing tidbits about him now that we have an outside view of him at last, while his lady friendsSenjogahara, Hachikuji, et al, freed from his predilectionfor proudly inane banter, show subtly new faces to us via their female interlocutor.Welcome to the Second Season.

Palindromic NISIOISIN made his debut as a novelist when he was twenty. A famously prolificauthor, he is known to publishmore than a book per month at times. With his inexorable rise, he has become the leadinglight of a younger generation of writers who began theircareers in the twenty-firstcentury. Titles by him published in translation so far includeDecapitation- The Blue Savant andthe Nonsense User (formerly known as Zaregoto) and a manga adaptation of his novel Imperfect Girl (from our Vertical Comicsimprint). The MONOGATARI series,widely considered his masterpieceto date, is becoming available in English for the first time.