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FumotoAuthor: Sakaguchi Ango
| Original Title | 麓 |
|---|---|
| Author | 坂口 安吾 |
| Genre | Popular Fiction |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | In a remote village shrouded in winter’s desolation, tensions simmer between a scheming school principal and Hikawa Baji, the aging village chief. The principal seeks to transfer Tsubaki, a brooding young teacher accused of leftist sympathies, but Baji intervenes, drawn to the man’s raw vitality. As Baji navigates his crumbling authority, he grapples with private sorrows: a wife fading into death’s shadow, a forbidden fascination with his sister-in-law’s vibrant presence, and a haunting awareness of life’s fragility. Meanwhile, Tsubaki’s defiant solitude and unspoken yearnings mirror Baji’s own buried regrets. Against a backdrop of frostbitten plateaus and whispered intrigues, the story weaves a tapestry of human frailty—where political suspicions mask deeper hungers for connection, and the line between vitality and decay blurs. Secrets pulse beneath the surface: a hunter’s lethal grace, a woman’s stifled laughter, and the chilling realization that even in isolation, no soul remains untouched by desire or despair. |
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