It has the wonderful lyrical prose that I just get obsessed with and underline a million times and think about over and over until the original line has mutated into something that's all my own and I just adore it!!! Okay so, this book is a little bit of a mess and doesn't quite hit the mark but.I love it. They must take the whale's legacy & leave the planet before they too became part of Takahashi's terrible poetic vision. Only one chance remained for josh Nakamura, for his younger brother Didi, & for Ryoko, the beautiful daughter of a high minister of Japan. He saw himself an artist whose greatest creation was a living haiku, w/a last line as exquisite as it was final-the end of all human life. He saw him THE MILLENNIAL WAR LEFT A SULLEN VOID WHERE CIVILIZATION ONCE STOOD.But then the whales began their song-a mysterious song that resounded throughtout the polluted seas & told an ancient hearbreaking tale that moved the survivors to revive an honored ritual.And at the vanguard stood Takahashi, self-appointed Death Lord-a man gone mad in the wake of the chaos. THE MILLENNIAL WAR LEFT A SULLEN VOID WHERE CIVILIZATION ONCE STOOD.But then the whales began their song-a mysterious song that resounded throughtout the polluted seas & told an ancient hearbreaking tale that moved the survivors to revive an honored ritual.And at the vanguard stood Takahashi, self-appointed Death Lord-a man gone mad in the wake of the chaos.