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"Lemon" is a classic collection of novels by Japanese writer Kajii Motojirō, who is known as one of the "Three Divine Treasures" along with Dazai Osamu and Nakajima Atsushi. It newly includes several works that have never been translated into Chinese, totaling 26 short stories and short stories. Kajii Motojiro's works are represented by "Lemon", which projects the shadow that war has brought to everyone since the late Taisho years. It is like the shadow in the hearts of long-term patients. Even a small lemon is like a fresh and bright hope in a chaotic world. He is good at using symbolic techniques and morbid fantasies to construct the melancholy world and ideals of patients. Writers such as Mishima Yukio have stated that they were influenced by him.

This book contains 10 short stories such as "Lemon" and "Under the Cherry Blossom Tree". The protagonists of each work are the incarnations of the author, and the physical and mental state they display also echoes the author's fatigue and melancholy. For example, in "Lemon", he fantasizes about using lemons to blow up this melancholy city that makes people want to escape; in "On the Road", the protagonist knows that the road is dangerous, but still refuses to turn back like a maniac, preferring to see his own destruction; "K's Ascension──or K's Drowning" even uses the moon landing of the soul to romanticize the irresistible desire to go to the depths of the sea. However, despite the pain, Kajii Motojiro still tried to find the joy of life and the vitality of life. In "A Town with a Castle", the author described the trivial daily life in detail, such as the not particularly exciting city scenery, quarrels when the family went out, etc. It is these trivial daily life that constitute happiness. Fu's life; the courtship scenes of night cats and creek tree frogs depicted in "Mating" also make people feel the dedicated vitality in nature; especially the chapter "Under the Cherry Blossom Tree", with the shocking opening of "There is a corpse buried under the cherry blossom tree!" Implies that beauty must fade away, and brilliant flowers will bloom in death. The whole book includes "Lemon", "A Town with a Castle", "On the Road", "The Ascension of K - or the Drowning of K", "Dark Picture", "Flies in Winter", "Mating", "Under the Cherry Blossom Tree", "Caress" and "The Careless Patient".