Reconciliation Av Naoya Shiga

<i>Reconciliation</i>, published here for the first time in the English language, is an understated masterpiece of the Japanese ''I novel'' tradition (a confessional literary form). Naoya Shiga''s novella is a quietly devastating reflection on all kinds of reconciliation: from his own familial reunion, to the universal need to reconcile ourselves to the inevitability of ageing, loss and death.