八月の路上に捨てる

Atsushi has a part-time job driving soft drinks round to refill vending machines, and his divorce will go through when he turns thirty. On the last blazing day of August, Ms Mizuki, the woman at the wheel beside him, wants to know how his marriage fell apart, and he tells her. He and his wife were both pulled at by ambitions, jobs and the need to get by, and the harder they tried, the more their feelings got twisted. Between his account and their easy back-and-forth, a quiet trust between the two co-workers shows.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

122 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2006 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

35 when first published

ISBN

9784163254005 (original)