(tent) Snow Flurries

How does love fade—softly, silently, until it’s gone? Yuri Kusaka is 33 years old. She has been married to Takuya, a systems engineer, for seven years. Their life is quiet and steady—until a single phone call shatters the calm: her husband has a lover. In the stillness of everyday routines, love begins to lose its color. Kazahana is a quietly devastating novel of a marriage unraveling. With restraint and emotional clarity, Hiromi Kawakami explores how intimacy erodes, how trust falters, and how a woman finds herself standing at the edge of something she no longer recognizes.