So We Look to the Sky: A Novel

This shocking, boisterous novel was a runaway bestseller and award winner in Japan

“Pressingly real . . . In these pages, you will find the lives of all of us”—Japan Times

Searingly honest and sexually explicit, So We Look to the Sky is a novel told in five linked stories that begin with an affair between a student, Takumi, and a woman ten years his senior. Their scandalous liaison, which the woman's husband makes public by posting a secretly taped video online, frames all of the stories, ea...