百の夜は跳ねて

After failing to land a job, a young man ends up cleaning skyscraper windows two hundred metres above the street, with no sense of being truly alive and a voice in his head insisting that inequality runs sideways as well as up and down. An older colleague says they are a sort of ghost: the people inside wipe them from their minds, changing clothes or having sex as if no one were at the glass. Then one day his eyes meet those of an elderly woman in a high apartment, and she makes an odd request: to photograph the interior of some building for her, it hardly matters which. Before long the two meet without the window between them and talk about their loneliness.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

185 pages in the original

Set in

Japan

First published

2019 by Shinchosha

Author's age

34 when first published

ISBN

9784103526919 (original)