The Shadow of a Blue Cat (Paperback)
Businessman Yuki Yajima is fifty-one years old. He and his wife,Asako,are the parents of two daughters: Ryo,seventeen,and Yuka,an infant of only two months. Asking himself why hes allowed himself to become a father again at his age,Yuki begins to remember his uncle,who died quite youngyounger,indeed,than Yuki is now. Thinking of this man,whom the young Yuki idolized,and who first introduced the boy to authors like Kenzaburo Oe and the Marquis de Sade,serves as a strange tipping point: allowing