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アサッテの人
Asatte no hito
“The Day-After-Tomorrow Man” (title translated by AI)
Tetsushi Suwa (諏訪哲史, born 1969)
English editions
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The narrator's young uncle, cut off by a stammer, came to loathe stock phrases, took to blurting out nonsense words such as "Pompa!" and finally disappeared. Sent to clear the flat he left, the narrator finds his diary, and sets out to make sense of the man's odd, deliberate swerves away from normal life by writing a novel about him, one that keeps asking what writing fiction can do.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 189 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2007 by Kodansha
- Author's age
- 38 when first published
- ISBN
9784062142144 (original)