The cover art is scattered with the yellow leaves of the ginkgo tree, as the opening paragraph describes an adolescent boy observing the light between them from a tree on a grim day which he cannot yet seem to fully grasp. Comparing their ruffling in the wind to rainfall…

To my knowledge, McEwan typically wrote more conventional historical fiction, but he has two works that are wonderfully unusual science-fiction with sullenly bleak settings. The characters live within a normalized existential state, but have adapted to circumstance in curious psychological ways…

カワ……かどうかはわからない鵜たちの祭りの様子・中編
（ズームしたらガサガサ度が増強した）