Jackson, who works at a fitness center inside a sports brand company, is pulled into rumors around a revenge-porn video after his QR-code T-shirt goes viral. The novel follows his search for the truth as he meets men who look just like him, in a sharp, fast-moving debut about Black-mixed lives in Tokyo.

A vivid story of revenge and resistance among Black-mixed lives in Tokyo, sparked by a QR-code T-shirt.

Shizuka and Nana live with despair as their dress code, moving between the poles of life and death armed with wordplay and punchlines. Their monologues surge forward like a current in this 59th Bungei Prize-winning novel.

Monologues of two high-school seniors who wear despair like a dress code.