Title: 鍵 (Kagi)
First published: 1961
Description: The story of a dying marriage, told in the form of parallel diaries. After nearly 30 years of marriage, a dried-up, middle-aged professor frenziedly strives for new heights of carnal pleasure with his repressed, dissatisfied wife, resorting to stimulants galore for her. During the day, they record their adventures of the previous night.
Subjects: Fiction, Adultery, Married people, Husband and wife, Translations into English, Japanese literature, Sick, Older men, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author), Japan, fiction, Fiction, sagas, Fiction, general
Places: Japan
Time periods: 20th century