Lit in Translation

ぬるい毒

Nurui doku

“Lukewarm Poison” (title translated by AI)

Yukiko Motoya (本谷有希子, born 1979)

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The call comes out of nowhere from a man who says they were at school together. He is magnetic, lies with total conviction and plays with feelings for fun. Believing her whole life will be settled by twenty-three, she craves his approval, and even as he tears her self-image apart she becomes his lover, letting him take her for a woman lost in romance while she waits for her chance to fool him in turn.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
133 pages in the original
Genres
Love (assigned by AI)
First published
2011 by Shinchosha
Author's age
32 when first published
ISBN

9784103017745 (original)