Afternoon at the Foreign Fruit Shop
by L
About This Novel
This book is a collection of short stories published by the famous contemporary Japanese writer Ogawa Yoko in 1998. Although it is the author's early work, the author's characteristics - a world setting full of fantasy, a plot intertwined with reality and fiction, and a delicate and restrained psychological description - have matured in this work. The book consists of eleven short stories, with the themes of "death" and "mourning", and the stage background is set in a fictional town with a clock tower. The stories are independent of each other, but they are also implicitly connected and scattered with foreshadowing, vaguely forming a circular structure that echoes from beginning to end. Some characters appear interspersed in each chapter. For example, the passerby in the first chapter is the protagonist of the second chapter, and the second chapter has details related to the third chapter... Weird interweaving, evil collision, and the fate of desperate people are gathered in a poignant web woven by ominousness and darkness.
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