ジミ・ヘンドリクス・エクスペリエンス

Dazzled by countryside sliding by as if in a dream, the narrator steers his moped off a track between rice paddies, tumbles head over heels beneath the sky and comes up plastered in mud. He was nineteen; for an instant that boy and the man of fourteen years on brush past each other. Memories arrive in scraps: a first romance, a ride north through Tohoku, Fusako, the art teacher with whom he swapped nude sketches, his friend Shinnosuke, who wanted to make films and disappeared, words picked up on the road. Through them all a Hendrix guitar smoulders quietly close by.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

119 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan, 2001–2011

First published

2015 by Shinchosha

Author's age

33 when first published

ISBN

9784103353126 (original)