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Catfish Rolling

Clara Kumagai
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Zephyr • 2023

Magic-realism blends with Japanese myth and legend in an original story about grief, memory, time and an earthquake that shook a nation.There's a catfish under the islands of Japan and when it rolls t...he land rises and falls.Sora hates the catfish whose rolling caused an earthquake so powerful it cracked time itself. It destroyed her home and took her mother. Now Sora and her scientist father live close to the zones – the wild and abandoned places where time runs faster or slower than normal. Sora is sensitive to the shifts, and her father recruits her help in exploring these liminal spaces.But it's dangerous there – and as she strays further inside in search of her mother, she finds that time distorts, memories fracture and shadows, a glimmer of things not entirely human, linger. After Sora's father goes missing, she has no choice but to venture into uncharted spaces within the time zones to find him, her mother and perhaps even the catfish itself...
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Zázračný sumec

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Zázračný sumec je kniha pre mládež s fantastickými prvkami, ktorá sa hlavne zaoberá vyrovnávaním sa so stratou po tom, čo Sora pri obrovskom zemetrasení stratí matku. V Japonsku sa vytvoria časopriestorové anomálie — zóny s nerovnomerným tokom času, ktoré Sora a jej otec skúmajú, pričom obaja tajne dúfajú, že je matka ešte nažive; román spája japonskú mytológiu s tichou, hlbokou komunikáciou postáv a vyvrcholí veľkolepým fantastickým finále. Autorka Clara Kumagai (írsko‑japonské korene) rozoberá kultúrne rozdiely a dospievanie; kniha je vhodná približne pre 15+, vydal ju Bambook (2025) a recenzia ju ohodnotila 9/10.

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Pod japonským súostrovím žije obrovský sumec, ktorého otrasy pred siedmimi rokmi pripravili Sorinu matku o život a zároveň vytvorili zóny, v ktorých čas plynie rýchlejšie alebo pomalšie; keď zmizne aj jej otec, Sora musí prekročiť hranice zakázaného, aby ho našla. Kniha je oceňovaný YA román, ktorý majstrovsky kombinuje prvky magického realizmu a sci‑fi a vťahuje do príbehu o rodine, pamäti a odhodlaní. Recenzentka chváli snový, japonský štýl a sympatickú hlavnú hrdinku, pripúšťa však, že záver bol miestami príliš rozvláčny; výsledné hodnotenie knihy je 4/5.

Magic-realism blends with Japanese myth and legend in an original story about grief, memory, time and an earthquake that shook a nation.

There's a catfish under the islands of Japan and when it rolls the land rises and falls.

Sora hates the catfish whose rolling caused an earthquake so powerful it cracked time itself. It destroyed her home and took her mother. Now Sora and her scientist father live close to the zones – the wild and abandoned places where time runs faster or slower than normal. Sora is sensitive to the shifts, and her father recruits her help in exploring these liminal spaces.

But it's dangerous there – and as she strays further inside in search of her mother, she finds that time distorts, memories fracture and shadows, a glimmer of things not entirely human, linger. After Sora's father goes missing, she has no choice but to venture into uncharted spaces within the time zones to find him, her mother and perhaps even the catfish itself...