Poplar No Aki (Shincho Bunko)

[Machine Translation] The summer after my father's sudden death, my mother took me, a young child, on a random walk through an unfamiliar town. We eventually found an apartment with a large poplar tree and decided to move in. I gradually became acquainted with the scary old lady who owned the apartment, and she told me a mysterious secret. As I grew older, the years spent with my grandmother and neighbors who kept their promises came vividly back to life in my mind. A warm story of rebirth by the author of "Summer Garden".

父が急死した夏、母は幼い私を連れて知らない町をあてもなく歩いた。やがて大きなポプラの木のあるアパートを見つけ、引っ越すことにした。こわそうな大家のおばあさんと少しずつ親しくなると、おばあさんは私に不思議な秘密を話してくれた―。大人になった私の胸に、約束を守ってくれたおばあさんや隣人たちとの歳月が鮮やかに蘇る。『夏の庭』の著者による、あたたかな再生の物語。