ナンバーワン・コンストラクション

S, still young, teaches the history of architecture. M insists his real ambition is fiction, yet keeps turning up in S's department; around them move N, who teaches there part-time, and a girl S loves in vain, whose handsome fiancé treats her with cruelty. Pairings form and break apart, between men and women and between men. Mostly in quick-fire talk, against the backdrop of a modern city's famous buildings, they debate eternity, mortality, art and love, cast themselves as Abraham and Isaac, and wonder whether anything can rise again once love is over and the body is gone.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

157 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

First published

2006 by Shinchosha

Author's age

30 when first published

ISBN

9784104695034 (original)