花腐し

A designer in his forties has been cheated by the friend he ran a studio with and is stuck with its debts. The head of a loan company offers to clear them if he can get Iseki, a would-be screenwriter, out of a run-down apartment house in Okubo, Tokyo's multinational quarter, where Iseki keeps a young woman under the spell of the mushrooms he grows. Drinking with the squatter while the rain keeps falling, the designer is drawn back to the woman he once lived with and lost, and to the partner who cheated him.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

150 pages in the original

Set in

Japan

First published

2000 by Kodansha

Author's age

46 when first published

ISBN

9784062103794 (original)