抱擁
Drawn to a quiet Western-style house in central Tokyo, the unnamed narrator meets Kiriko, a mysterious young girl, and her forbidding grandfather. Asked to live there as her tutor, he becomes entangled in the residents' concealed pasts and strange fates in this romantic gothic novel.
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Work Information
In an uncanny old house, the boundary between reality and fantasy slowly begins to waver.
Published by Shueisha in 1982, this novel received the 10th Izumi Kyoka Literary Award. Set in a city mansion, it follows the history of a silent girl and those around her, and is regarded as a work from the period when Keizo Hino developed a more fantastic mode of fiction.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 集英社
- Published
- 1982-02-01
- Pages
- 242 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784087723595
- ISBN-10
- 4087723593
- Price
- 412 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論
第10回（1982年） 泉鏡花文学賞受賞