A Single Match

Also known as: Match Ippon no Hanashi, マッチ一本の話, Matchi Ippon no Hanashi, Red Kimono, Le Kimono Rouge

by Oji Suzuki

In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human psychology, literally bathing his characters in expansive shadows that paradoxically reveal as much as they obscure.