A short-story collection including the title story, precisely depicting unease, weariness, and the presence of death hidden in daily life. It condenses Junnosuke Yoshiyuki’s short-fiction craft and won the Yomiuri Prize for Literature.

Like something stored inside a bag, human unease quietly reveals itself.

Dan Kazuo’s long autobiographical novel, written over many years. A sweeping record of wandering, desire, family, and food, it received the Yomiuri Prize for Literature and the Japan Literature Grand Prize after his death.

The record of a man who remains in a burning house yet moves toward travel and the release of life.