The six stories that make up "Little Pieces" are all set in Japan, land of Zen austerity, manga excess, and much in between.
This Side of Japan consists of six stories, all set in Japan β a dreamlike, sometimes delirious Japan, all the more real for that. In First Snow a middle-aged unemployed man has an unexpected encounter with his childhood babysitter. Dragonflies, "a novella with the richness of a novel, "as one reviewer put it, traces the lives of two lifelong friends who cling to each other when thereβs nothing else to cling to. In The Concussion, how far does frenzied rebellion against hopelessly good parents take a man?
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