'The Shadow Collection' can be considered a popular novel, but is also something of a cult novel thanks to its games, literary homages, the maturity of its narrative, its cast of characters and its dramatic depth.

Never were the love and complicity between two people so strong as to make them feel like one, able to face any mishap or adversity.

ふたりの人間の間の愛情と共犯者意識が、これほど特別になったことはそうないだろう。あまりに特別なものだから、たったひとりであらゆる不慮の出来事や逆境にも対峙できると感じてしまうほどだ。100歳の祖母と無鉄砲な孫娘は、自分たちに譲渡された遺産の謎を解明するためならどんな障害も乗り越えようと心に決めている。現在の疑問を解き明かすために過去の原因を熱心に探り、想像できる限り最大の冒険に没頭するふたりの姿に、私たちは心のなかのもっとも気高く深い部分をゆすぶられ、夢を見て、微笑む。

Never were the love and complicity between two people so strong as to make them feel like one, able to face any mishap or adversity.