“A man’s life is like a piece of string. No matter how carefully you coil it, it will always come undone in the end.” Chapter 1: The Mission […]
Japanese literature
Woman Running in the Mountains
“She felt as if she were running through the mountains, alone, with no one to rely on.” Part 1: Takiko’s Pregnancy Takiko Odaka, a young woman in Tokyo, […]
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“It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.” Chapters […]