夏の裁断

Chihiro, a novelist, has been worn down by Shibata, an editor who pulls her toward him one moment and shoves her away the next, until at a party she stabs him in the hand with a fork. To recover, she spends the summer alone in her dead grandfather's old house in Kamakura, slicing the spines off his books so they can be scanned: hard, strange work for someone who writes them. As the shelves empty, she goes back over the tangled bond with Shibata, and over the reason she could not break it: an old sexual injury that still shapes her as an adult, in ways she barely recognises.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

125 pages in the original

Set in

Japan

First published

2015 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

32 when first published

ISBN

9784163903248 (original)