
Silent Garden
About This Novel
Mitsuyo Tsunoda, a Naoki Award-winning writer who directly faces the plight of women, explores the meaning of parent-child, husband and wife, and family from the root of life, and deeply describes women's desire, fear, and difficulties in childbearing. The novel mainly describes seven women who long to be mothers, seven men who are unable to become fathers, and seven children with completely different growth experiences and fates. Every summer, seven different families gather together in a beautiful villa to spend happy time. But one day, the camping suddenly came to an abrupt end. The children have been separated since then. When they reunited many years later, they embarked on different development trajectories. The illustrator Juri is facing fertility problems, the singer Haru is facing blindness due to genetic problems; the housewife Noriko whose marriage is in a desperate situation, the sage who is occasionally swallowed by the blank, the social elite Atan who dares not to have in-depth relationships with girls, Yuichiro who drifts with the crowd and plays with life, and the jobless vagrant Sa Yumi with a gloomy personality... Through memories, investigations, etc., They uncovered the secrets hidden behind the reunion of their parents, and achieved reconciliation with themselves.
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