Abstract

A wife turns into a giant after learning of her husband’s affair. The husband, while feeling distraught and guilty, earnestly looks after his wife while hiding her disfigured body from the eyes of the world. However, someday, he will no longer be able to hide the existence of his wife, who needs a massive quantity of food and produces huge quantities of excrement, and the husband draws ever closer to a decision. This mysterious work has been praised for breathing new life into romance literature.

Author’s Information

Man’ichi Yoshimura was born in Matsuyama, Ehime, in 1961 and raised in Hirakata, Osaka. After graduating from the Kyoto University of Education and working as a teacher at high schools and special support schools in Tokyo and Osaka, he became a full-time author. He won the 92nd Newcomer of the Year Bungei Prize in 2001 for his debut Kuchu-kuchu BAAN. He won the 129th Akutagawa Prize for Hariganemushi in 2003, and the 22nd Shimase Award for Love Stories for Giant Woman in 2016. In addition to novels, in recent years, he published his first comic (U-chan Under the Sink) and collections of essays (That Which is Irreplaceable in Life, and Monologues of the Eel). His other literary works include Burst Zone, Bollard’s Disease, Uso-romantic, and The Traveller.