Amayama No Fujo Sonin 1 (Kodansha Novels)

[Machine Translation] Dreaming: The power to release one's soul into faraway lands and travel back and forth at will. Sonin, a girl who was expected to have this ability even before she was born, was training to become a priestess at "Tianshan," a needle that pierces through the clouds, but at the age of 12, she was sent back to her hometown as a "mistake in prospect. She is reunited with her family and makes her first best friend, but her peaceful life is short-lived when she is assigned to work as the maid of honor for the seventh prince, Iwol, in the royal palace of the "Land of Shawei. As tensions between the two neighboring countries of "Geosan" and "Gangnam" rise, a major incident occurs inside the royal palace that shakes the country. Winner of the 40th Japan Children's Literature Association New Writer Award.

夢見-自らの魂をはるか遠い土地へ放ち、自在に行き来する力。生まれる前からその素質を見込まれた少女ソニンは、雲をつらぬく針のごとき"天山"で巫女の修行に励んでいたが、十二歳のときに、「見込み違い」として故郷へ帰されてしまう。家族との再会、初めてできた親友-穏やかな生活も束の間、"沙維の国"の王宮で、第七王子イウォルの侍女として働くことに。二つの隣国"巨山"と"江南"の緊張が高まる中、王宮内部では、国を揺るがす大事件が発生してしまう-。第40回日本児童文学者協会新人賞受賞作。