Der Tag, an dem Er selbst mir die Tränen abgewischt

A young man finds himself in the neurological ward of a Japanese clinic. He wears diving goggles that shield him from the outside world and believes he is terminally ill. He tells a nurse his life story, which leads back to the day when, as a child, he saw his father killed at the end of World War II. Kenzabur es novel about the traumas of war - told in poetically complex form.