April 27 – May 3, 2026
Going back to where it started — a childhood town, a family home, a country left behind. Five novels about what we find when we retrace our steps.
A man returns to his childhood through an unexpected visitor — when Shimamoto reappears after decades, she forces Hajime to confront the life he built atop the person he once was. Murakami's most nakedly tender exploration of how nostalgia can unmake us.
A woman settles by a lake after her mother's death and finds that sometimes healing arrives not through words but through the quiet presence of another person — through shared meals, through silences that don't demand filling.
A young man learns to mimic normalcy — studying his classmates like a naturalist, faking desire, constructing an acceptable self — in Mishima's searing portrait of a life lived behind glass. A classic precisely because it refuses the comfort of metaphor, treating the mask not as deception but as exhaustion.
by Osamu Dazai
A man returns to the mirror of his own confession — tracing every performance, every mask, every moment he mistook survival for living. Dazai's masterwork asks whether going home means returning to the person you were, or finally admitting you were never there at all.
A man returns to the obsessive pull of a childhood attachment — only to find that some bonds, once severed, become the very thing that undoes us. Mishima's lyrical meditation on desire and class unfolds in a Japan caught between two worlds, where the past offers no comfort and the future promises none.