The Wild Girls (11 page)

Long unavailable in the U.S., published in France as
Nova Africa
,
Fire on the Mountain
is the story of what might have happened if John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had succeeded—and the Civil War had been started not by the slave owners but the abolitionists.

Praise:

“History revisioned, turned inside out ... Bisson’s wild and wonderful imagination has taken some strange turns to arrive at such a destination.”

—Madison Smartt Bell, Anisfield-Wolf Award winner and author of
Devil’s Dream
.

“You don’t forget Bisson’s characters, even well after you’ve finished his books. His Fire on the Mountain does for the Civil War what Philip K. Dick’s
The Man in the High Castle
did for World War Two.”

—George Alec Effinger, winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for
Shrödinger’s Kitten
, and author of the
Marîd Audran
trilogy.

PM PRESS FOUND IN TRANSLATION

Lonely Hearts Killer

Tomoyuki Hoshino

Translated by Adrienne Carey Hurley

978-1-60486-084-9

$15.95

“I don’t want to go so far as to say such-and-such was the deciding factor. Only that it’s too late now. From this point onward, we have no choice but to rebuild our relationships anew. For that to happen ... I’ve written it so many times that I’m not rehashing it yet again.”

What happens when a popular and young emperor suddenly dies and the only person available to succeed him is his sister? How can people in an island country survive as climate change and martial law are eroding more and more opportunities for local sustainability and mutual aid? Where can people turn when the wildly distorted stories told on the nightly news are about them? And what can be done to challenge the rise of a new authoritarian political leadership at a time when the general public is obsessed with fears related to personal and national “security”? These and other provocative questions provide the backdrop for this powerhouse novel about young adults embroiled in what appear to be more private matters – friendships, sex, a love suicide, and struggles to cope with grief and work.
Lonely Hearts Killer
compels readers to examine the relationship between state violence and interpersonal brutality while pointing toward ways out of the escalating terror. PM Press is proud to bring you this first English translation of a full-length novel by the award-winning Japanese author Tomoyuki Hoshino.

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*
Alan Fram, “Books Get Low Rank on To-Do Lists,”
The Oregonian
, August 22, 2007.