Kayahara Ka No Kyodai

[Machine Translation] The "Niigata City Family Dissolution Case" and the mysterious "Memoir. Thirteen years after graduating from university, "I" receive an invitation from my friend Kyojin Chihara, with whom I had lost touch, and visit his house in a mountain villa. Kyohito is immersed in some kind of research at night in his Western-style house, and his younger sister, Mutsumi, who lives with him, has lost her former vivaciousness, as if she were a different person. What is Kyohito's research? What is the purpose of the invitation? I" is entangled in the mystery of these strange siblings. This is an extremely strange and romantic tale by the author, who won the Sakunosuke Oda Award and is the first person to be crowned the winner.

“新潟市一家溶解事件”そして謎めいた“手記”―。大学を卒業して十三年後、交流が途絶えていた友人・茅原恭仁からの招待を受けた「私」は、山間の別荘地にある彼の自宅を訪ねる。恭仁はその洋館で夜な夜な何かの研究に没頭しており、彼とともに暮らしている妹の睦美は、別人のようにかつての快活さを失っていた。恭仁の研究とは何なのか。招待の目的は何か。「私」はこの奇妙な兄妹の謎にからめとられてゆく。織田作之助賞受賞で初戴冠の著者による、奇妙極まる怪異譚にして恋愛譚。