[DeepL Translation - needs review] One day, Korozumi notices that her husband has stopped taking baths. Her husband continues to refuse to bathe, saying that the water smells bad and itches when it gets on his body. She orders him to rinse himself with bottled water, but eventually he goes outside when it rains and comes home wet. Then her mother-in-law tells her that her husband's body odor has become a topic of conversation at work, and she blames it on "marital problems. Her husband retir...
What would you do if your husband refused to wash? This starts as a small crack in a couples relationship, but steadily grows as cracks show throughout their Tokyo life.
The novel touches the wife's unease at blindly following the expectations of society, and also the differences in expectations of society in Tokyo vs coutry life.
Generally very approachable language wise, especially something which is dealing with relatively deep topics.