[DeepL Translation - needs review] I am Kusano-Hana (腐野花). This man, somewhat elegant and miserable even in his unfamiliar cheap suit, like a fallen aristocrat, his name is Jungo. He is my man, and my adoptive father. Suddenly, at the age of ten, I was orphaned, and twenty-five-year-old Jungo took me in and we became father and son in a small town overlooking the sea. The story goes backwards from Hana's marriage to our past, as if turning an album backwards. This Naoki Prize-winning novel d...
