A horse-racing novel in which a boy encounters a thoroughbred at the track, sets his heart on becoming a jockey, and eventually becomes popular, only to move toward race-fixing amid relationships and desire. It depicts both the fascination and danger of the world of competition.

The cheers of a first victory eventually draw one jockey toward the path of race-fixing.

Ryoshuki is a novel in which Chiba Jihei gives literary form to postwar memory and the shadow of captivity. It treats internment and return through both private feeling and the wider wounds left by war.

A novel that follows the weight of postwar memory through captivity and the gaze that remains after return.