An Autumn in Amber A Zero-Second Journey (Novel)

An Autumn in Amber A Zero-Second Journey (Novel)

From the award-winning author of The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes and Wait For Me Yesterday in Spring comes a brand-new light novel about setting aside differences to solve the mystery of a world frozen in time.

Socially awkward loner Kayato has an intense fear of being touched and finds making friends extremely difficult. When he and his high school classmates visit Hakodate for a field trip, he suffers through some attempts to engage with the others, until…

Time stops for the entire world, but not for him.

All the hustle and bustle of the city fades into an eerie veil of silence, leaving him the only soul left in motion–until he finds another in Akira, a sharp-tongued local delinquent. Though she’s his total opposite, she begrudgingly agrees to help him solve the mystery. Their only lead is something Kayato’s uncle said just before he died about a “world plucked out of time,” as if preserved in amber. Hoping to find a clue among his late uncle’s possessions in Tokyo, the two teens must travel through the frozen world.

Biographical Notes:

Mei Hachimoku is an award-winning author of Japanese-language novels, best known for The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes; Wait For Me Yesterday in Spring; The Mimosa Confessions; and An Autumn in Amber, a Zero-Second Journey.

KUKKA is an artist whose delicate and evocative artwork has been used in multiple Japanese-language light novels, including The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes; Wait For Me Yesterday in Spring; The Mimosa Confessions; and An Autumn in Amber, a Zero-Second Journey.

Title Notes:

Mei Hachimoku–who won the Gagaga Award and the Judge’s Special Award in the 13th Shogakukan Light Novel Competition–penned the novels The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (which inspired a manga and an anime film), Wait For Me Yesterday in Spring, and The Mimosa Confessions, all published in English by Seven Seas. Artist Kukka illustrated those novels as well.

Color inserts and roughly a dozen black-and-white manga-style illustrations complement 250-350 pages of text.

Perfect for fans of other Mei Hachimoku novels, the novels of Yoru Sumino (including I Want to Eat Your Pancreas), and sci-fi/supernatural dramas like orange, Summer Ghost, Hello World, and Ride Your Wave.

This title has crossover appeal with YA audiences (rated Teen 13+).