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The narrator, nineteen, pours drinks in a Hakata bar beside her bony cousin, and her aunt, who once had an affair with the narrator's father, urges her to take care of her looks while she is young. They belong to a family of women, its men barely present, spread across three houses on the banks of the murky Naka River near the Nakasu nightlife district. Told in broad local dialect, it follows how they bicker and get by together.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

190 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2000 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

34 when first published

ISBN

9784163213408 (original)