The winner of the 174th (2025 second half) Akutagawa Prize and the 47th Noma Literary Newcomer Award. A young man meticulously draws the floors, pillars, ceilings, tiles, walls, and inscribed memories of a house once inhabited, capturing traces of its former lives. A masterful architecture novel.
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