植物診断室

Hiroki, a loner at work, lives for solitary walks and takes a healing treatment called plant diagnosis. His sister and brother-in-law arrange for him to meet a divorced woman raising a son or daughter alone. Her request is odd: that he be there for the child as a grown man, without being its father or her spouse. Hiroki must work out what that could mean, in a story that questions family and marriage through images of plants and living things.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

125 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2006 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9784163256306 (original)