グレイスレス

Mizuki earns her living on the sets of adult films, making up the performers before each shoot. When the work is done she goes home to somewhere else entirely: a carefully crafted European-style house deep among trees, where she and her grandmother lead a quiet life together. The story moves between the shoots and the house, between the profane and something close to the sacred, and asks what moral sense a woman in that trade keeps hold of, where sex and plain living shade into each other.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

122 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2022 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9784163916545 (original)