[DeepL Translation - needs review] Volume 1 Introduction: "Do you think you could carry a child for twenty months?" . In the summer of 1952, Tatsumi Sekiguchi, a literary scribe, hears a strange rumor about the daughter of the Kuonji clinic in Zoshigaya, Tokyo. Moreover, the husband, Makio, who disappeared like smoke from a secret room, was one year Sekiguchi's senior at his old high school.
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