Lit in Translation

うちに帰ろう

Uchi ni kaerō

“Let's Go Home” (title translated by AI)

Naoki Hirokoji (広小路尚祈, born 1972)

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A man who keeps house while his wife goes out to work handles childcare, cooking and the mothers at the park, until one day a woman he has befriended there nearly drags him into a double suicide.

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About the book

Form
Novella
Length
158 pages in the original
Genres
Family (assigned by AI)
Set in
Japan
First published
2010 by Bungeishunju
Author's age
38 when first published
ISBN

9784163297507 (original)