LA CIGALE DU HUITIÈME JOUR (EN JAPONAIS)

Winner of the 2nd Chuokoron literary prize(2007).The first full length suspense novel by this prize winning author. A mistress kidnapped the newborn daughter of her lover, and raised it as her own with much love and joy. The book searches for the meaning of family structure through the minds of the two women - the birth mother and the mistress.