ギッちょん

One man's life is told out of order. He is a rowdy boy, then a teenager running wild, then a young man drifting from place to place; in his forties he has no home; in later years he works as a cleaner and waits quietly for death. Weaving through these scenes are his boyhood friend Gitchon and his father, a solitary figure. The episodes surface in no fixed sequence, and the shape of the life builds up only piece by piece.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

230 pages in the original

First published

2012 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

46 when first published

ISBN

9784163820200 (original)