Japan’s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. (source)
Genres
- literary fiction
- contemporary fantasy
- psychological fiction
- parapsychology
- fate and fatalism
- Fiction
- Japanese fiction
- Man-woman relationships
- Marriage
- Missing persons
- Politics and government
- Translations into English
- Fiction, psychological
- Japan, fiction
- Man-woman relationships, fiction
- Fiction, political
- Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Japanese Psychological fiction
- Heisei period
- New York Times reviewed
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