女の庭

A housewife with no children and plenty of empty hours joins the mothers who chat in the park, though she can never quite find her way into their talk. She tells herself the stifling feeling is nothing; she is an ordinary wife, after all. Then Naomi, a woman from abroad, moves into the flat next door. Before long the narrator is listening for every sound through the wall and watching her neighbour's comings and goings, spinning a life for Naomi that looks more and more like her own.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

154 pages in the original

First published

2008 by Kawade Shobo Shinsha

Author's age

32 when first published

ISBN

9784309019024 (original)