Ari: Book 1-The Children of Troffea

By Ian Harrous

In Tokyo, they dance.
Without music. For no apparent reason.
Until they die.

A collective trance sweeps through the city like a cry from the body. Once the dancing begins, no one knows how to stop it. As the megacity sinks into a stupor in the face of this emerging contagion, the truth remains hidden, lurking behind a screen.

Arinori Mikami, alias Ari, is not a mere witness. He is the spark.

A young hikikomori shut away in his apartment, Ari is the nerve center of this phenomenon. Under the pseudonym Kokumai, he is the one who instills the trance from afar, resurrecting the medieval specter of the Strasbourg dancing mania that occurred in 1518. It is he who, from his keyboard, gathers drifting souls and builds the clandestine community of the "Children of Troffea."

Between modern loneliness, buried legacies, and the fever of the flesh, this first volume sets the tempo for a macabre ballet where movement becomes a final cry of despair. Here, people do not dance to put on a show. They dance under his command to fade away, to end it all.

A great psychological and noir predictive novel, where the silence of a reclusive man becomes the most terrifying of noises.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G6C88PR8
• ISBN13: 9791098095542
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Ian Harrous
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"