皆のあらばしり

A high-school boy from the history club runs into a middle-aged stranger where Minagawa Castle once stood. The man grabs a list of the books kept by a long-established local household, which the boy has got hold of, points to an entry under Ozu Hisatari, a kinsman of the filmmaker Ozu, and declares that no book of that title appears in any record. If so, he says, grinning and clapping the boy on the shoulder, they may be onto something big. Suspicious of the man's slipperiness but taken with how much he knows, the boy joins him in pursuing the book: a lost treasure, or a fake? Their hunt reaches back through history in sharp, fast talk where truth and lies nest inside each other like a confidence trick.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

133 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2021 by Shinchosha

Author's age

35 when first published

ISBN

9784103543718 (original)