{"id":200584,"date":"2010-01-19T08:53:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T13:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=8707"},"modified":"2010-01-19T08:53:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T13:53:48","slug":"the-quest-for-the-missing-girl-by-jiro-taniguchi-translated-by-shizuka-shimoyama-and-elizabeth-tiernan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/200584","title":{"rendered":"The Quest for the Missing Girl by Jiro Taniguchi, translated by Shizuka Shimoyama and Elizabeth Tiernan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/quest-for-the-missing-girl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8669\" title=\"Quest for the Missing Girl\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/quest-for-the-missing-girl.jpg?w=128&#038;h=179\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a>Take notice: this is every parent&#8217;s worst nightmare come true. Without warning, 15-year-old Megumi disappears, seemingly without a trace. Her mother has no idea why she might have left or where she might be &#8230; and the only clue she has is a very expensive designer handbag filled with pricey make-up which she finds hidden under Megumi&#8217;s bed, something the teenager could never afford on her own.<\/p>\n<p>From the mountain shelter swoops down &#8220;Uncle&#8221; Shiga, Megumi&#8217;s father&#8217;s best friend. The two used to climb serious mountains together, until Tatsuko froze to death after summiting Daulaghiri (the world&#8217;s seventh highest mountain) in the Nepalese Himalayas. Shiga still berates himself for not having gone up with Tatsuko, and has since promised to look after Tatsuko&#8217;s wife and young child no matter what &#8230; and now he&#8217;s got to find Megumi before it&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of a mysterious young man who the city street kids trust, and an unlikely fast-talking school friend of Megumi&#8217;s, Shiga learns Megumi&#8217;s secrets are hardly innocent. Worried and desperate, Shiga is determined to rescue Megumi &#8230; which may well be the last thing he does &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>With some of the most realistic black-and-white graphics, manga veteran Taniguchi creates a fast-moving mystery that will keep you turning those pages, quickly and nervously. As warned, if you&#8217;re a parent &#8230; don&#8217;t read this alone at night. Most importantly, make sure you really, really talk to your kids as often as you can. You wouldn&#8217;t want to discover their secrets this way for sure! As disturbingly entertaining as this manga is, it does double duty as a parenting guide, too!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008 (United Kingdom, United States)<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8707\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8707\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8707\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8707\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8707\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8707\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8707\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8707\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8707\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8707\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=bookdragon.si.edu&#038;blog=6730168&#038;post=8707&#038;subd=bookdragonreviews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take notice: this is every parent&#8217;s worst nightmare come true. Without warning, 15-year-old Megumi disappears, seemingly without a trace. Her mother has no idea why she might have left or where she might be &#8230; and the only clue she has is a very expensive designer handbag filled with pricey make-up which she finds hidden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2824,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}