デッドライン

Early in the 2000s an unnamed philosophy student in graduate school lives along the Inokashira Line in Tokyo. By day he reads French theory over iced coffee at a Doutor café, goes to classes and lends a hand with a close friend's independent film; some nights he drifts like a fish through the dark of gay cruising spots, alert to every sensation of the body and to the risks it carries. Oblivious to the romance growing between the two friends he is closest to, he fumbles his approaches to men in the bars of Shinjuku Ni-chome. Meanwhile his master's thesis refuses to come together and its due date keeps closing in, while he wrestles with ideas of becoming an animal and becoming a woman.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

161 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan, 2001

First published

2019 by Shinchosha

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9784103529712 (original)