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not bad, but the author has written better stories since these
This is a book of five short stories from the first two years of the author's career, including his debut story 冥い海 and the title story 暗殺の年輪 which won the Naoki Prize in 1973. The themes I think of as "classic Fujisawa" are already present here -- small scale stories with characters hemmed in by circumstances, social position and their moral code, who struggle but often fail to make things work out.
The stories generally do not furigana character names, which is annoying for learners since Edo