"Where Words End, New Edition" Kazuko Tsurumi / Michiko Ishimure / Mari Akasaka / Norio Akasaka Price: ¥2200 (tax included ¥2420) The cover and帯 (obi, a paper band around the book) have some minor scratches and stains, but the inside is almost as good as new. Words, can die in battle, can die in agony—Michiko Ishimure Where words end, words are born—Kazuko Tsurumi A gripping dialogue, a long-awaited new edition. 〈From the Preface to the New Edition〉 ■ This dialogue, while persistently wishing to "start from where words end," challenges that fundamental impossibility as if throwing body and soul at it, only to be repelled each time, repeating unavoidable setbacks countless times. That appearance may seem like a brutal battle, but more than that, it feels precious and venerable, and one cannot help but be moved. —Norio Akasaka ■ Two women who have come from completely different paths, both go to where words end, and from there, are resurrected, becoming completely new human beings, seeing and speaking the same things with different qualities, reaching a depth and height regarding the country and religion that no one has ever reached before. They talk about amazing things that no religious person could achieve, using round words, and laugh and chatter like schoolgirls. —Mari Akasaka