num_pages: 160
description: 'This year I intend to begin writing freely about a topic which, in the past, I have hesitated to mention even here. I have always avoided commenting on my sexual relations with Ikuko, for fear that she might surreptitiously read my diary and be offended...' So begins The Key - a forthright and moving tale of a middle-aged man deeply in love with his younger wife. In spite of that love, they have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's thoughts and desires-until the day Ikuko discovers the key to her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. The key, she realises, to his very soul...
language: English
title: The Key
titlecomplete: The Key
genres: Asia, 20th Century, Japanese Literature, Novels, Asian Literature, Literature, Erotica, Classics, Fiction, Japan
ratings_count: 6154
places: Japan
publisher: Univers