Gate Natalli Amato and his daily running routine

and his daily running routine

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Despite a seemingly idyllic childhood

Gate Natalli Amato and his daily running routineAn NYRB Classics Original A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families' consent, and unable to have children of their own, Ssuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational expenses of Ssuke's brash younger brother. While an