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Life in the Cul‑de‑Sac follows four neighboring households—Kiuchi, Takigawa, Yasunaga, and Oda—whose lives intertwine on a typical Tokyo street. Through a series of interleaved stories, Senji Kuroi portrays their everyday challenges, strange visions, and quiet domestic conflicts, offering a nuanced portrait of modern Japanese society. The novel asks whether the lives of these families are unraveling or coalescing, revealing the fragile, sometimes magical reality of suburban Tokyo.
First publish date: 2001
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Kuroi, Senji
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