"Sleeping Forest" Author: [Japan] Higashino Keigo Publisher: Nankai Publishing Co., Ltd. Original title: Sleeping Forest

"The Sleeping Forest" is a novel written by Japanese writer Keigo Higashino, which cleverly combines beautiful romance with suspense and puzzle solving. It belongs to the "Malice" series and has sold over 1 million copies in Japan. The story of "The Sleeping Forest" takes place in a ballet troupe, where the classic play "Sleeping Beauty" is being performed, and the plot in the play seems to be happening in reality. In order to complete this fairy-tale suspense novel, Higashino poured in great enthusiasm and said that "The Sleeping Forest" gave him great inspiration and confidence.

The Gao Yanagi Ballet Company is about to perform the classic play "Sleeping Beauty". A few hours before the performance, the company rehearsed. On the stage, the princess was stabbed by a spindle and fell into a long sleep; off the stage, the artistic director who was conducting the show suddenly lost his voice and was stabbed in the back by a poison needle. The whole company seemed to be under a fairy tale curse. The performance went on as usual. On the stage, the princess woke up with the prince's kiss, and the people around her also woke up from their sleep; while some people in the company were poisoned, some committed suicide, and the plot of the whole city falling into sleep in the story was becoming a reality. The second performance was about to begin.

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★The clues to understanding Kaga's humanity are all in the work "The Sleeping Forest". ——Abe Hiroshi (starring in the Japanese drama of the same name)

★ "The Sleeping Forest" begins with a destined encounter and takes you into an elegant yet cruel world. ——Japanese reader

★ Keigo Higashino has devoted great enthusiasm to "The Sleeping Forest", saying that writing "The Sleeping Forest" has given him inspiration and confidence. He realized from it: "As long as you keep trying and keep learning, you will always be able to write it. Once you have With this kind of awareness, there is nothing you can’t do.”

★The "Malice" series, with detective Kaga as the protagonist, is one of Keigo Higashino's two major series of works, with a total sales volume of over 10 million copies in Japan. The series includes "Graduation", "Sleeping Forest", "Who Killed Her", "Malice", "I Killed Him", "Just One Lie", "Red Finger", "Newcomer", "Kirin Wings", and "Prayer Ends". Another series is the "Devotion of Suspect X" series, with detective Galileo as the protagonist, currently including "Detective Galileo", "Precognitive Dreams", "Devotion of Suspect X", "Galileo's Distress", "Saint's Salvation", "Midsummer Equation", "Phantom Clown", and "Forbidden Magic".