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Asuka Sakura, a freelance writer of twenty-eight, opens her eyes in a white room she has never seen. It is the 'quiet room', the closed ward for women in a psychiatric hospital. She had swallowed too many sleeping pills to cope with stress and a furious quarrel with her partner, passed out, and is now being treated as a would-be suicide. Bewildered at first, she gets to know a haughty nurse, a girl she meets on her first day, a former adult-video actress and fellow patients whose troubles range from eating disorders to lying and cutting themselves, and over fourteen days she begins to reconsider her life on the line between normal and abnormal.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

138 pages in the original

Set in

Japan

First published

2005 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9784163245201 (original)