Somersault
Ten years after they went on television to renounce their own church and call the whole thing a joke, the two founders known as Patron and Guide are found again by the followers they abandoned, among them the faction that had been preparing to seize a nuclear plant. A new church assembles in a Shikoku valley around leaders who no longer believe what they preach. Ōe's first book after the Nobel, written out of the Aum subway attack.
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