White Feast
by H
About This Novel
Originally titled "Heart Transplant", the work was adapted from the heart transplant procedure performed at the Sapporo Medical University Affiliated Hospital in 1968. It is a novel by Jun Watanabe. Driven by the motivation to become a heart transplant performer, the protagonist Yusuke Shigeto transplants the heart of a young man who was brain-dead due to drowning into a young patient with congenital heart disease. The process is accompanied by opposition within the hospital and doubts from the patient's family. Newspaper reporter Kentaro Tomatsuka keenly sensed the huge news value behind this incident, and worked hard to dig out internal information in order to write sensational headlines. The novel is driven by a two-line narrative, which not only has a sense of semi-documentary reality, but also develops a rich imagination of the protagonist's inner world. The tense atmosphere between characters with different positions is vividly expressed on the page through the author's vivid description. Through this work, we can find the origin of the narrative charm of Watanabe Junichi's novels.
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