About the book: 2017 / Outside the window is a two-story blue house surrounded by several trees, once captured in the photographs of the photo album "Spring Garden", published twenty years ago. A mysterious island of silence and constancy in the sea of ​​rapidly changing Tokyo. Nishi and Taro, two residents of a city area that is emptying out in 2014 who barely know each other, absolutely need to get inside this house: one - to part with questions from their past, the other - to wake up to a new life. For half a year, the world for both of them revolves around the blue house: empty and inhabited, imaginary and real. For the book “Spring Garden”, the modern Japanese writer Tomoka Shibasaki in 2014 became the 151st winner of the Akutogawa Prize - the most prestigious literary award in Japan.