Two women on a graduation trip to Thailand encounter an Akha village and the swing called Plenka, and each is forced to face her own roots. A travel novel and the 23rd Subaru Literary Award winner.

A journey that unsettles identity and friendship.

Set amid underground life in a city of the former Yugoslavia, this experimental novel intertwines the voices of poets, soldiers, and civilians. It layers report, confession, notebook, poetry, and criticism to push Japanese prose toward its limits.

A prize-winning work that shakes the form of narration itself in wartime underground spaces.