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| Original Title | いやな感じ |
|---|---|
| Author | 高見 順 |
| Genre | War & Social Literature |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | In the murky depths of early Showa Japan, Kashiba Shiro, a disillusioned former anarchist, navigates a world of seedy brothels and political decay. Haunted by a past of failed revolutionary acts and petty crimes, his fragile reality shatters when a passionate but tainted love affair leaves him with a profound sense of defilement and a gnawing emptiness. As Japan's imperial ambitions surge in China, Shiro finds himself drawn into a vortex of intrigue, factional power struggles, and escalating violence. Caught between a yearning for an ordinary life with his newfound family and a terrifying, unbidden hunger for destruction, he descends into a series of murders that blur the lines between principle and pathology. With each brutal act, he grapples with the escalating question: Is he a true terrorist, sacrificing for a cause, or merely a man consumed by an insatiable, meaningless bloodlust in a world gone mad? |
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