Darkness in Summer

by Takeshi Kaikō and Takeshi / translated from the Japanese by Cecilia Segawa Seigle Kaiko

Book Overview

"This intensely modern novelaprovides vivid insights ." u Ivan Morris "Darkness in Summer" is the story of former lovers, separated for ten years, meeting again. Now, incapable of love, they are brought together by desire and mutual desperation. They savor their world together, unaware that it may unravel again.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039448441X
• ISBN13: 9780394484419
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great writer - Akutagawa prize winner

This is a modern Japanese novel set in European countries. I read it decades ago as part of my introduction to Japan. I had read Mishma; you couldn't ask for a more brilliant contrast. Kaiko (1930 - 1989) is sophisticated and nihilistic but full of gusto for life as you can see by his enthusiam for food, alcohol, sex, sleep and fishing. Though not set in Japan, it is a fine glimpse to the possibilities of Japanese cosmopolitanism of the 1970s. This book is rich with precious images and wisdom. The same may be said for "Into a Black Sun."