Touring the Land of the Dead

Featuring two Akutagawa Prize-winning novellas, Touring the Land of the Dead follows Taiko, a woman who takes her husband, Kenji—paralyzed after a stroke—on a trip to a hot-spring resort hotel where her once-wealthy family used to spend their summers. As they navigate the fading luxury of the resort, Taiko is drawn into a dreamlike journey through family memories, loss, and the thin boundary between life and death. The companion novella, Ninety-Nine Jealousies, offers an equally intimate look into marriage, desire, and emotional bondage within a household marked by illness and obsession.