二十四五

Two years after leaving home, the narrator, now a novelist in her mid-twenties, is going to Sendai for her younger brother's wedding. Her aunt has been dead for five years, yet hints of how much the aunt loved her keep cropping up in sly ways, sometimes bringing her to tears, which she calls a grudge that runs deep. Moving back and forth in time, she searches out proof that this beloved woman was truly here, learning to live on with the loss.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

109 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2024 by Kodansha

Author's age

38 when first published

ISBN

9784065383285 (original)