Aki and Hiro are two of the fish swimming against the current in this surreal novel. The third is a travel guide who falls to his death when hiking in mountains outside Tokyo with the couple. Who is this strange guide? Why are Aki and Hiro so shaken by an accident? And who are the two to each other anyway? These are a few of the questions that the slow-simmering story addresses. Told in viewpoints alternating between Aki and Hiro, the narrative travels systematically back in time to deliver a mildly entertaining if not fully satisfactory resolution to the mysteries.
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