Tattoo (with Bonus Content)
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- ¥1,700
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- ¥1,700
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BONUS: This special eBook edition includes four bonus short stories set in the world of Tattoo: "Chen," and the eBook exclusives “Pavel,” "Queen Sidra the Lovely," and “Soryk.”
HER FATE IS IN HER FLESH.
In an environmentally fragile world where human and animal genes combine, the rarest mutation of all—the Trader—can instantly switch genders. One such Trader, the female Sorykah, is battling her male alter, Soryk, for dominance and the right to live a full life.
Sorykah has rescued her infant twins from mad Matuk the Collector. Her children are safe. Her journey, she believes, is over, but Matuk’s death has unleashed darker, more evil forces. These forces, led by the Collector’s son, cast nets of power that stretch from the glittering capital of Neubonne to the murky depths below the frozen Sigue, where the ink of octameroons is harvested to make addictive, aphrodisiacal tattoos. Bitter enemies trapped within a single skin, Sorykah and Soryk are soon drawn into a sinister web of death and deceit.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Kasai returns to the fragile world of 2009's Ice Song, where somatics blend human and nonhuman characteristics into singular forms, and a tiny minority, the Traders, can transform from male to female and back again. Unfortunately for Trader Sorykah/Soryk, a Trader's personae are different people and existence is a zero-sum game; every moment Sorykah experiences is one that Soryk cannot, and vice versa. As the consequences of Queen Sidra's successful strike on Matuk the Collector, head of evil Tirai Industries, ripple across the world, Sorykah and Soryk contend for precious moments in time. In this odd mix of decadent futurism and secondary world fantasy where ancient myths coexist with mundane technology, the characters struggle to survive in a society stratified by economics and biology. As with Kasai's 2006 Flesh Hell (not linked to this series), Tattoo revels in the lushly erotic while remaining aware of the costs of addiction and self-indulgence.
