時の家

An empty house is due to be torn down. A man of thirty-five lets himself in and starts drawing it, detail by detail: the scarred round pillar bound in rattan, stained tiles, uneven plaster, floorboards bleached by the sun. The house was designed by Yabu, its first owner, who long ago taught him to sketch the landscape. Over forty years others followed: Midori, back alone from her husband's posting in Malaysia, who ran a maths school there and had lost her best friend in an earthquake, and Kei, who lives there with a kind, silent husband she cannot quite reach. Moving freely between decades and between people who never met, the narration seems to come from the house itself, holding on to the marks each life has left.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

139 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2025 by Kodansha

Author's age

33 when first published

ISBN

9784065412275 (original)