不器用な天使

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Set in Tokyo during the early Showa era, this short novel follows a twenty-year-old student who develops a tender, awkward affection for a young waitress at a café. Amid the jazz, cigarette smoke, and modern rhythms of the city, the youth navigates his own confused emotions and the company of his bohemian friends. With delicate psychological insight, Hori Tatsuo captures the fragile intensity of first love and the fumbling grace of youth. The story became his breakthrough work, admired for its lyrical restraint and modern sensibility.

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