The Goblet · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.
THE ORIGINAL BOOKS ↓The Goblet · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.
On the cover of The Kōenji Café, the motif is identified as “The Goblet.” For forty years, customers have told him about lives they never lived. Their stories are beginning to echo one another.
On the cover of The Guest List, the motif is identified as “The Goblet.” At the wedding, three guests each remember a different groom. By dawn, one of them is dead.
The motif, its illustration, and its appearances can be compared. A resemblance proves neither that the same object has traveled nor that two stories share a continuity.
Intimacy, Family & RomanceFor forty years, they have told him about impossible lives. Today, their stories begin to connect. At the Kōenji café, Shigeru Arai serves, listens, and lets his customers leave with their silences. He has heard of loves that cannot be found, different families, lives nothing can confirm. Then details begin to align between people who should not share the same memories.
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Crime, investigation & psychological thrillersThree guests remember a different groom. By dawn, one of them is dead. In the Hebrides, a wedding gathers families, friends, and deeply personal versions of happiness. When incompatible memories join the celebration, the differences no longer concern only what people know about the couple. They concern the very man about to make his vows.
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