A mysterious library in a walled city at the edge of the world — a place that can only be entered by those who leave their own shadow behind. Here lives the true self of the girl the nameless narrator fell hopelessly in love with at seventeen. He sets out to find her, reaches the mysterious city, but the girl no longer recognises him.
The narrator finds himself returned to the world beyond the wall under puzzling circumstances. He moves to Tokyo, works in a bookshop, has one girlfriend after an...
