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"This intensely modern novelaprovides vivid insights ." u Ivan Morris "Darkness in Summer" is the story of former lovers, separated for ten years, meeting again. Now, incapable of love, they are brought together by desire and mutual desperation. They savor their world together,... Read Full Overview

This intensely modern novel ... provides vivid insights into the alienated condition of a certain type of Japanese whom we may so often glimpse in the streets of Rome or New York--intelligent, perceptive, and desperately lost between two worlds.--Ivan Morris, author of The... Read Full Overview