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London: Harvill Secker, 2017. First edition in English. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. First published in Japan in two volumes; The Idea Made Visible & The Shifting Metaphor in 2017. The first edition in English, one volume, was published simultaneously by Knopf in the U.S. and in London by Harvill Secker in October of 2018. The protagonist is an unnamed portrait painter whose wife leaves him at the start of the book. Devastated, he quits portrait painting and goes on a long road trip. In the middle of his road trip he meets a nervous woman in a diner who seems to be running away from someone. The protagonist suspects that she is running away from a man who sits nearby while they eat. The protagonist nicknames this man as the man with the white Subaru Forester. The woman and the protagonist end up going to a love hotel and having violent sex. The next day, he wakes up and she is already gone. He goes back to the diner and sees the man with the white Subaru again and he feels as though the man… Read More