He had happened to catch sight of herĪs he went to shut the small window looking out onto Was at the far end of the long section, the flat farthestĪway from his. Rotated so that the short section was hanging down. It was a block of flats shaped like an L flipped and Towards the concrete wall and, beyond it, the house of She was looking, but she was faced straight ahead, Glasses meant that Taro couldn’t tell which direction The sunlight that reflected off her blackframed The woman was looking at something over her firstfloorīalcony, her hands gripping the railing, her neckįrom the ground floor, Taro watched the woman. Her first book, A Day on the Planet, was turned into a hit movie, and Spring Garden won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 2014. 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.
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