This collection of four short stories follows people who have passed major turning points in life as they walk in the mountains around Mount Asama and Mount Hotaka. Beginning with the title story, in which former classmates meet again after forty years and go climbing, it portrays bodies and minds gradually being released through walking while carrying the weight of passing time and physical change.

A short-story collection in which men and women beyond life's difficult passages revisit their past and present while walking in the mountains.

ぶるうらんど is a work by 横尾忠則 selected for the 泉鏡花文学賞. It was published as a book, so both its award status and its book publication can be identified.

ぶるうらんど