A fiction winner of the Minami-Nippon Literary Award. It turns its attention to life in wartime and traces the tension between being hurt and refusing to break others.

A novel that keeps its attention on lives in wartime.

A sequence of fifteen poems that follows the feeling of becoming fragments, set against workplace scenes and the body being assembled and reassembled. Pain and humor coexist in the space between breaking apart and being picked up.

Someone gathers up the fragments of me.