skopia
Jed Martin, an artist, makes his name photographing Michelin road maps and painting people at their trades. Houellebecq writes himself into the novel, has himself murdered, and gives Jed a dying father.
Chieko, a foundling raised by a Kyoto kimono merchant, meets the twin sister who logs cedar in the mountains. Kawabata carries them through a year of festivals in a city losing its crafts.
Two decades after covering the Brooklyn Dodgers for a newspaper, Kahn found the same men in middle age, one paralyzed. What began as a baseball book becomes an elegy for everyone's youth.