The Grass-Cutting Sword

The Grass-Cutting Sword

Catherynne M. Valente

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June 2006

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A re-telling of the Japanese myth of Yamata-no-Orochi, this fragmented, metamorphosed folktale explores the strange landscape of primeval Japan, from the Heaven-Spanning Bridge to the hellish Root-Country, following the troubled trickster Susanoo-no-Mikoto, god of wind and storms, as he is banished from heaven and wanders the earth, lost in human form, in search of his demonic mother and charged with the defeat of an eight-headed serpent...

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Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente was born in the Pacific Northwest, grew up in California, and now lives in Ohio with her two dogs.

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