Description
Rie Qudan—winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize—delivers in this formally inventive, culturally resonant novel a story set against the construction of an enormous new tower in Tokyo that uses the architectural project as the medium through which to examine ambition, complicity, creativity, and the relationship between art and the social structures that commission it. Written with the formal intelligence and the genuine cultural specificity that make the best contemporary Japanese literary fiction so distinctive and so rewarding, this is essential reading for every admirer of Japanese literary fiction and every reader ready to encounter one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary world literature.
