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Utsunomiya, 1995, a city famous for its thunderstorms. Tatsuya Shiga, a second-year pupil at the prefecture's best boys' school, means to leave for university in Tokyo, though the station that would take him there unsettles him. His father, whose advertising firm is struggling, pins its survival on building Western Electric-style vintage amplifiers with a partner, Nomura, and Tatsuya watches the work with respect. Once his father has the internet put into his room, Tatsuya starts visiting gay websites, thrilled to glimpse a living gay world yet never sure whether whoever writes the messages on screen is a person, a machine or a ghost. His friend K is always somewhere in his thoughts.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

164 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan, 1995

First published

2023 by Shinchosha

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9784103529736 (original)