切れた鎖

Umeyo is the last daughter of the Sakurai line, the family that long ago paved over Akamagaseki, once a place of fishermen by the strait, and made it a concrete town. That wealth is long spent. In the run-down family house she now lives with Misako, a daughter whose marriage has ended, and Misako's little girl. Behind the house stands a church of Korean residents that seemed to spring up from nowhere, and Umeyo, like her mother before her, loathes it. A closed, custom-bound community slowly comes apart.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

146 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2007 by Shinchosha

Author's age

35 when first published

ISBN

9784103041320 (original)