In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn’t that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It doesn’t work, but one of the girls–Tuan Kirie–grows up to be a member of the World Health Organization. As a crisis threatens the harmony of the new world, Tuan rediscovers another member of her suicide pact, and together they must help save the planet…from itself.
| notes: | Winner of the 2009 Seiun Award and the 2009 Japan SF Award. | 
| subjects: | Nanotechnology | 
| genre: | Fiction | 
| ISBN: | 9781421536439 | 
| OCLC number: | 491954121 | 
| publisher: | Haikasoru | 
| publication place: | San Francisco | 
| japanese publication date: | 2008 | 
| english publication date: | 2010 | 
| document type: | Book | 
| description: | 252 p. ; 21 cm. | 
