Originally published in 2003 as 太陽の塔 (Taiyō no Tō)ABANDON THE PURSUIT OF ORDINARY HAPPINESS!One young man’s barren college life changes forever when he shares a budding romance with a girl namedMizuo...only for it to all come crashing down when she has the gall to dump him! With the specter of a solitary Christmas Eve looming, he tears through the streets of Kyoto with just his powerful (some might say delusional) imagination to protect him from the cruel world at large. A Japanese fantasy novel for every man who’s been let down by love—and those still bracing for it!°°°Tomihiko Morimiwas born & raised in Nara Prefecture, Japan. His first novelTower of the Sun, which he wrote while studying at Kyoto University, won the 15th Japan Fantasy Novel Award. In 2006, he received the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize for the novelThe Night is Short, Walk on Girl, & in 2010, Penguin Highway was awarded the Japan SF Grand Prize. In 2023, the English edition ofThe Tatami Galaxywas shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize. Several of his works have been adapted into critically acclaimed anime series & films.