The year is 2013, in the city of No. 6 - the city that embodies the highest ideals of humankind. Shion has been raised here as a high-ranking elite since the age of two, but on the night of his twelfth birthday, his fate is turned upside-down when he meets a boy who calls himself Nezumi. Why did I open the window that night? I would never have needed to know what it was like to fight, starve, or suffer in anguish....
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Atsuko Asano (あさの あつこ Asano Atsuko?, born 1954 in Okayama Prefecture[1][2]) is a Japanese writer. She wrote the children's novel series Telepathy Shōjo Ran and the manga series The Manzai Comics.[3] She started writing the children's novels when she was in college. She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin college and majored in literature.[4] She published "Hotaru-kan monogatari" as her first novel.[5]
Asano received the Noma Prize for Juvenile Literature in 1997 for book series Battery,[1] which has been adapted into a film.[6] The same series won the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award in 2005.[1] Her work frequently appears in literary magazines and she has also been featured in the Mainichi Shimbun.[7]
