The Part of My Heart That Hasn't Broken Yet
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"The Part of My Heart That Has Not yet Broken" is a representative novel by the popular Japanese writer Kazufumi Shiraishi. This book is narrated from the perspective of the male protagonist. It is a heterosexual novel that keenly explores issues such as love and desire, life and death, and is both erotic and philosophical. Matsubara Naoto, who lacked parental care since childhood and came from a poor family, was almost abandoned by his mother when he was young and learned to rely only on himself. He is strong but cold. As an adult, he lived a luxurious and drunken urban life, while dealing with three women: one was Mrs. Onishi, who came from a wealthy family but couldn't satisfy her desires, the other was Tomomi, a single mother who ran a bar, and the other was a beautiful and gentle young woman Ediriko. There are all kinds of tenderness in this kind of dealing, but it is also lonely to the core, making Naoto unable to stop asking, "What is life? What is death? Why do people live? Is it for the people they like or to pursue an ordinary happy life? How can people continue to exist in this cold and alien world?..." This is a never-ending painful questioning, and it is also a gentle redemption that is soothing...
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