A School Frozen in Time 1 - by Mizuki Tsujimura (Paperback)

About the Book

First published in Japan in 2008 by Kodansha, Ltd., Tokyo.

Book Synopsis

From two star creators Naoshi Arakawa (Your Lie in April) and award winning writer Mizuki Tsujimura (Anime Supremacy!) comes a psychological horror story filled with twists, turns, and hard truths about the lives of high school students and the pressures they face in modern society.

On a snowy school day like any other, classmates and childhood friends Hiroshi and Mizuki arrive at school to find the campus eerily empty. Before long, they find themselves trapped inside with six other friends, and even stranger, all the clocks have stopped at a very specific moment--the exact time when a former classmate jumped off the school roof to their death three months earlier. It turns out that this departed friend is their way out of their current predicament and may even be among their group...but no one can remember who it was that took their life on that sad day. The students must face themselves and their past memories to piece together the identity of this suicide victim or risk a similar fate--with their lives lost and forgotten inside these frigid school walls.

About the Author

Mizuki Tsujimura made her debut by winning the Mephisto Prize, in 2004, Best known as an author of dark mysteries, she won the Naoki in 2012. A Japan Booksellers' Award nominee, Anime Supremacy! was her first work to be published in English.

Naoshi Arakawa made his debut as a manga artist in 2007 with Tsumetai Kousha no Toki wa Tomaru (A School Frozen in Time), a manga adaptation of the award-winning mystery novel by Mizuki Tsujimura. He made his U.S. debut in 2015 with Your Lie in April, which along with its anime adaptation in 2015, became a hit with American audiences. His most recent series is Farewell, My Dear Cramer, which is currently available as a simulpub series and is the sequel to his Sayonara, Football manga about girls' soccer.