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attributes.createdAt: 2021-03-19T17:23:40+00:00
attributes.lastChapter: 11
attributes.lastVolume: 1
attributes.originalLanguage: ja
attributes.publicationDemographic: seinen
attributes.state: published
attributes.status: completed
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attributes.en: Psychological
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attributes.en: Slice of Life
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attributes.updatedAt: 2021-03-19T17:23:40+00:00
attributes.altTitles: en マッチ一本の話
attributes.description: en In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human psychology, literally bathing his characters in expansive shadows that paradoxically reveal as much as they obscure. A young man catches a cold after being soaked in the rain and is tended to by his grandmother. He drifts, dreaming of a train trip with an older brother he doesn't have. A traveling salesman comes across a boy lying in the middle of the road and stops to have a cigarette and tell a story that drifts through memories of faces and places, before settling back on the traveling salesman and the boy pretending to not look at the stars. A young woman walks along the river with her bicycle and a friend who is nothing more than a disembodied head, discussing past times together, memories they have of each other.
attributes.links: amz https://www.amazon.com/Single-Match-Oji-Suzuki/dp/1770460098
attributes.links: engtl https://drawnandquarterly.com/single-match
attributes.links: mu 47039
attributes.title: en A Single Match