もどろき

The narrator's father killed himself outside the Kyoto rice shop his own father ran. Beginning at a shrine on the Kyoto–Shiga border known locally as Modoroki-san, the story moves between grandfather, father and son, past and present, with the story of the place itself layered in. What pulls him on is a wish to trace the outline of the world, and to learn what became of all the words people never said.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

160 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2000 by Shinchosha

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9784104444014 (original)