Title: The Shotgun - Yasushi Inoue - book
Summary :
Exhausted, too tired to move a finger, I mechanically let my gaze focus on your reflection in the window. You had finished scrubbing the barrel and were reassembling the slide, which you had also cleaned. Then you raised and lowered the rifle several times, shouldering each time. But soon after, the rifle stopped moving. You pressed it firmly against your shoulder and took aim, closing one eye. I realized that the barrel was clearly pointed at my back. Yasushi Inoue
The Shotgun , or the many facets of an impossible passion. Three letters, addressed to the same man by three different women, form the tragic texture of this singular tale. At the beginning, a banal story of adultery. At the end, one of the most beautiful love stories in contemporary literature. With a formidable economy of means, in a subtly stripped-down language, Yasushi Inoue gives the eternal version of the doomed couple.
