しんせかい

Sumito, who idolises Ken Takakura and Bruce Lee and dreams of acting, travels to the Valley, a two-year school run by a famous scriptwriter known only as the Teacher, where students grow their own food while learning to write and act. Fainting in the fields, earning the Teacher's praise one day and his anger the next, he writes letters home to Ten, a girl he is fond of, who meanwhile finds a partner, marries and becomes pregnant. Classmates leave, festivities are staged, the older students graduate, and one night Sumito dreams of a man in black who tells him: I am you.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

163 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2016 by Shinchosha

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9784103503613 (original)

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