A linked love novel about Junichi, a young man who seems to drift through life, and women of different ages and positions. His outline emerges through the women's stories.

The figure of Junichi appears within the women's lives.

A novel in which a couple in their seventh year of marriage reconsiders love and marriage after a sense of lack in their peaceful life and an unexpected separation. Distance reveals the shape of their bond.

Their hearts waver between being married and being in love.

A novel about a woman with an illness that erodes sensation and feeling, and the time of love around her. A body moving toward loss overlaps with the urgency of loving in the present.

As sensation fades, only the present moment of love shines intensely.

A linked novel in which several narrators offer their memories and emotions about one man. Each telling changes his image, revealing the uncertainty of love and understanding.

Each new narrator shifts both his image and the meaning of love.