Spring GardenStrange, gripping, startling and unusual: the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Taro is divorced, unhappy in his job, and living in a half empty building that is about to be torn down. One summer morning, he sees a fellow resident climbing over the wall to the next door house. She says she is called Nishi, and invites herself inside. It emerges that Nishi's fascination with this pale blue house began in her student days twenty years before,