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It is 2018, five years since a philosopher moved from Tokyo to Osaka; he lectures at a university in Kyoto. Declaring that language is the excrement of being, he swings between words and men's bodies. Nothing dramatic happens: the novella follows his work on campus and off, life in a city not his own, his longing for Haruto, his younger boyfriend, who shares his taste in food and enjoys reading what he writes, his parents' remarks, his usual bar, his tropical fish, the lost 'big white house' of his childhood and the tweets he posts along the way, while the temperature slowly rises. A second story, 'Magic Mirror', reunites him with a man he first encountered in a cruising spot two decades earlier.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

185 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2021 by Shinchosha

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9784103529729 (original)