“The deeper the quicksand, the more one struggles—only to sink further.” Chapter 1: The Meeting The novel opens with Sonoko Kakiuchi, a married woman from Osaka, recounting her […]
Japanese literature
Naomi
“She was like a doll, a Western doll—so delicate, so fragile, yet so bewitching.” Chapter 1: The Encounter Joji, a reserved and well-off engineer in his late twenties, […]