Green Requiem

( Japanese - グリーン・レクイエム - 1983 )

novel by Motoko Arai

translated by Naomi Anderson

Published: Kodansha International - paperback - 1984
ISBN: 4061860046 / 9784061860049


synopsis
The protagonist, Asuka Misawa, is a girl from an alien race of green-haired dryads. Crashlanding on Earth, she falls in love with a human, Nobuhiko Shimamura. Although Asuka attempts to live a life of normalcy by dying her hair black and working at a coffee shop, she is compelled towards suicide by the titular piece of music: the melody of which embodies her mother's command that she walk into the sea.

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