A haunting sci-fi fantasy about a world where women are hidden away, men cultivate living statues, and a there is a mysterious rebellion on the rise, now in English for the first time.In an unnamed country where the men cultivate statues and the women are nowhere to be seen, a traveler, staying at a lonely inn, is taken on a tour of the walled estates and introduced to the gardeners' elaborate cultural practices and traditions. But all is not well in the statuary c...