A youth novel that captures a summer of surfers and women in a shimmer of restlessness and desire. The tempo of the seaside and the fragility of youth emerge vividly.

In the blinding brightness of an almost bursting summer, the feelings of young people come and go like waves.

An early signature work by Arika Shimizu that sharply explores the relation between music and language. It is an experimental book filled with urban heat and noise-like texture.

The book keeps blurring the boundary between sound and language.

Centered on the day a long-awaited elephant arrives at a city zoo, this work weaves together the zoo's history and the feelings of the people around it. Its gentle humor also reveals the weight of accumulated time.

While waiting for the elephant's arrival, the zoo gradually begins to tell its past.