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Ari: Book 1-The Children of Troffea
Paperback
Series: Ari, Book 1
Publisher: Ian Harrous
Published: Dec 10 2025
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Have you ever felt like you were all alone in the world, even in the middle of a crowd?
In 1518, residents of Strasbourg danced themselves to death. What if that was only the beginning?In an alternate Japan on the brink of collapse, the plague reemerges. Arinori Mikami, a young hikikomori shut away in his apartment-known as Ari-is at the heart of this chaos. Under the pseudonym Kokumai, he gathers adrift souls from behind his keyboard and builds the clandestine community of the Children of Troffea. He is the one who instills the trance from afar, resurrecting the specter of the worst dancing epidemic in history.
Like a cry from the body. Once the dance begins, no one knows how to stop it.
A great psychological and noir science fiction novel, in which a recluse's silence becomes the most terrifying of noises.
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