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"Shiro Kikutani, a high-school teacher, murders his wife, wounds her lover, and sets the lover's house - with the lover's old mother in it - on fire." "In jail for life, he is convinced of his righteousness: his beautiful young wife had been in bed with another man.
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Grave, earnest, contemporary and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Yoshimura, Akira
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 250
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780151002702
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