ディレイ・エフェクト

In Tokyo in 2020, daily life in wartime has begun to show through the present. The narrator's sitting room is laid over the old family parlour, and at a ghostly low table set inside his sofa sits his great-grandfather. His grandmother lives in the house too, still a child. The city is in turmoil, but he goes on quietly as the bombing of the old downtown on 10 March 1945 draws nearer, and with it the night the girl's mother, his great-grandmother, is to die in the fire. At work, in an office swept by a blizzard that is not really there, he and his colleagues wait uneasily for that hour.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

178 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan, 2020 and 1945

First published

2017 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

38 when first published

ISBN

9784163908205 (original)