'One of the few writers whose greatness was unquestionable' - Sunday Times
Shinsuke is an ageing author whose books present women as creatures of marble perfection, but whose diary contains his true opinion - a disdainful and bilious and countless affairs. When he meets Yuichi, he sees in the young boy's incredible beauty and his homosexuality the perfect tools with which to torment and punish the opposite sex. In this starkly fierce and original novel, Shinsuke callously delights in using Yuichi to trap a girl in a loveless marriage and to exact other revenges. But Yuichi soon becomes suffused with a sense of his own power and, no longer willing to be manipulated by ayone, runs dangerously out of control.
'A most beautiful writer of prose - clear, eloquent, visual' - Financial Times
