This is my favourite (so far) in a great series of Japanese novellas. This one concerns a couple who become obsessed with a sky-blue house that borders their crumbling apartment block, which was once owned by an obscure artist, who documented the interior in a brief and mysterious photography book. A fascinating piece or urban fiction that really captures the feeling of living the constantly changing yet somehow always familiar neighbourhoods of Tokyo with their own very particular and often personal athways, stories, mythologies.