A collection by Fumiko Enchi containing the title work along with Kitsunebi and Hebi no Koe. Aging, memory, female passion, and a spectral atmosphere intertwine, quietly unsettling the border between reality and the fantastic.

Lingering feelings in this world take on a faint spectral air through women's memories.

A long novel about a woman painter exposed to the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, the man drawn to her, and the woman with whom she lives. Love and death, memory and creation, cross through multiple timelines in a meticulously structured postwar work.

The island in the painting draws the lovers toward the center of death and memory.