A promising young doctor, Kirihito Osanai visits a remote Japanese mountain village to investigate the source of the latest medical mystery. While he ends up traveling the world to discover what it takes to be cured of such a disease, a conspiracy back home attempts to explain away his absence. Hinging upon his fate are those of his loved ones an unstable childhood friend and colleague trapped between factions of the medical establishment that nurtured him a fiancee emotionally transformed by Kirihitos mysterious disappearance and a stranger who becomes his guardian angel, a sensual circusact performer with volatile psychological secrets. From plutocratic Taipei and racially divided South Africa to backwater Arabia and modern Osaka, ambition and desire beckon normal men to behave uglier than any beast. Riveting our attention on deformity and its acceptance like The Elephant Man by David Lynch, Ode to Kirihito examines the true worth of human beings through and beyond appearances.

Binding: Paperback;832 pages; Publisher: Vertical Inc.; Classification: FXA; Weight: 926 g; Dimensions: 153 x 202 x 60

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