Aspiring writer Sumire finds herself drawn toward Miu, an older businesswoman, but after a brief romance, Sumire disappears while they are vacationing in Greece. Long enamored of Sumire, a man known only as K. agrees to help Miu find the lost woman, but when K. peers into Sumire's writing files, he has a metaphysical experience that makes him feel that reality has split in two, and he uncovers a harrowing secret from Miu's past. The unabridged text of this 1999 novel by the author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Men Without Women is read here by Adam Sims.

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