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Satoshi Kon (Author)
September 2013
ISBN-10 : 1939130069 ISBN-13 : 978-1939130068
English
236
black&white
Translated from the Japanese
Release imported from British library - public domain license
Yosuke's family has a strange tradition - once every sixty years they receive an egg from a mermaid. When the egg matures his family dutifully returns it to the sea, where the whole process is then repeated. In exchange for this favor, the mer-people bless his coastal town with bountiful catches of fish and calm seas.
But as a commercial development encroach on the sleepy seaside village and Yosuke's father is lured away from tradition towards modern prosperity, and turns the egg into a tourist trap, what will happen to the promise their family made to the mermaids generations ago?