Both were rather precocious, and like many precocious young people they found it hard to grow up.

“Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps an…”

“When Reiko left, I stretched out on the sofa and closed my eyes. I lay there st…”

“People like old elephants better than sewers and fire engines.”

“That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”