A Romanesque human drama set in a mysterious Western-style house

The narrator, taken with a Western-style house stood quietly in the middle of the city center, receives an invitation to pay a visit from an unknown real estate agent. Living there are the fantasmatic young girl Kiriko, and the master of the house, a distant, unapproachable old man. A masterpiece of Romanesque fiction, winner of the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature.

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