Set in a ginnemu house that carries the aftermath of Okinawa’s postwar years, the story brings out the friction of misfits living together and fighting over money, mixing violence with dark irony. It is a work that records the pain of people living at society’s edge.

The pain of the postwar years seeps into the ginnemu house.

The novel follows the travels and drifting lives of young people who leave Japan and head overseas, told through Tatsumi’s perspective in a brisk, refreshing style. Their efforts to keep going while facing discrimination and loneliness abroad leave a strong impression.

It looks straight at the lives of young people making their way on the far side of the sea.