Abstract

A blissful reading experience is guaranteed in Yuzaburo Otokawa’s latest work.
In 1980, Hiroyuki and Yuko meet at a university campus. As a translator and simultaneous interpreter, they drift about on a sea of words as the two of them fight, love, and pass each other by. As the decades pass, they meet again after much suffering. Fate is cruel, yet sad and gentle. Through confrontations over the translation of different languages into Japanese, to their surprise, they wonder if this is a form of love. What does fate have in store for the lives of the two lovers? This is a masterpiece of romance literature.

Author’s Information

Born in Tokyo in 1953. He won the All Yomimono Newcomer Award in 1996 for "Yabu Tsubame." In 1997, he won the Historical Novel Grand Prize for "Kiri no Hashi" (Bridge in the Mist), the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize in 2001 for "Go-nen no Ume" (Five-Year Plum), the Naoki Prize in 2002 for "Ikiru" (Living), the Nakayama Yoshihide Literary Prize in 2004 for "Samurai Caution Collection," the Osaragi Jiro Prize in 2013 for "Seiryo Sanmyaku" (Backbone Mountains), the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art Encouragement Prize in 2016 for "Taiyo wa Ki o tsuba" (The Sun Loses Mind), and the Shima Kiyoshi Romance Literature Award in 2017 for "Logos no ichi" (City of Logos).