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396 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1988
One day, I’ll walk into that store as a customer and buy it all. She had sworn this to herself countless times. I’ll wear a fifty-million-yen fur coat, walk into the store with a nonchalant air, and look at “it.” Yes, “it”—the necklace of sapphires and diamonds, accented with rubies and emeralds, that looked like a giant star hanging on one’s chest. The matching set also included a bracelet, a ring, and earrings. The sapphire on the ring was 22.76 carats—she even remembered the decimal point. I’ll take all of these. How much? The foxy salesclerk would answer obsequiously, Of course. Um, the total comes to eight hundred million yen. Then she’d say, Eight hundred million? A bit pricier than I expected. In a situation like this, you’d never say it was cheap. Could you give me a discount? Say, six hundred million? No? I see. Well, that can’t be helped. Eight hundred million it is. Please wrap it up for me…