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壊れるほど近くにある心臓

Mishima Yukio Award

壊れるほど近くにある心臓

Tomoka Sato

A Heart Close Enough to Break is Chika Sato's novel about a form of happiness created by three people and the danger that comes from such closeness. It follows relationships in which intense intimacy can be both rescue and destruction.

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Work Information

The closer they hold one another, the more fragile their three-person happiness becomes.

This Kawade Shobo Shinsha volume is presented as a story about the fate of a perfect happiness created by three people. Its central force is excessive closeness and the anxiety that follows from it.

Review Summaries

  • The tension comes from the urgency with which the characters need one another and the sense that the relationship may break. It reads not only as a love story but also as a question about forms of happiness.

Book Information

Publisher
河出書房新社
Published
2003-03-01
Pages
185 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784309015361
ISBN-10
4309015360
Price
9800 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論/文芸作品/日本文学

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