After graduating from university, she took an office job but continued writing, and was shortlisted for the Bungei Prize in 1998. Tomoka Shibasaki was born in 1973 in Osaka and began writing fiction while still in high school. Since the death of his father, Taro keeps to himself, but is soon drawn into an unusual relationship with the woman upstairs, Nishi, as she passes on the strange tale of the sky-blue house next door.įirst discovered by Nishi in the little-known photo-book 'Spring Garden', the sky-blue house soon becomes a focus for both Nishi and Taro: of what is lost, of what has been destroyed, and of what hope may yet lie in the future for both of them, if only they can seize it. The mortar was lined with narrow grooves, a little too perfect for ashes to get stuck in.'ĭivorced and cut off from his family, Taro lives alone in one of the few occupied apartments in his block, a block that is to be torn down as soon as the remaining tenants leave. 'He'd come to realise that it was a mistake to grind up his father's remains with such a thing. Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope
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