猛スピードで母は

Shin, in his last year of primary school, lives with his mother in a cold town in the north where the sky hangs low. She is a woman who hurls things, argues with how children's stories end and works at jobs she is not cut out for. On the day she fits winter tyres to the car, she tells him she may be marrying, and Shin, unruffled, keeps on decent terms with the man recently returned from overseas who appears to be her partner. The story sees an adult's struggle with real life through the senses of a child.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

160 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2001 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

29 when first published

ISBN

9784163206509 (original)