平成くん、さようなら

It is the winter of 2018, and in this version of Japan assisted death is legal. Hitonari, born on the era's first day and named with its characters, is a 29-year-old writer whom television and magazines celebrate as "Heisei-kun", the face of his generation: rational, polite to all, uninterested in sex, as quick with an answer as a search engine. Ai, the narrator, has shared his flat for two years when he says he means to die as the era closes. Hoping to change his mind, she goes with him around the clinics and businesses of the euthanasia trade, and learns about a childhood and a mother and father he never mentioned. Thick with brand names and trends, the novel follows a couple deeply in love who keep failing to meet.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

187 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan, 2018–2019

First published

2018 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

33 when first published

ISBN

9784163909233 (original)

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