Dominique Palmé Books

'Hardboiled' opens as the narrator, a woman in her 30s, treks high above her secluded mountain hotel. There she confronts the fears and the sense of loss that haunt her. In 'Hard Luck', we find another female narrator, this one keeping vigil by the side of her sister who lies in a coma.

This autobiographical novel, is the haunting story of a Japanese boy's development towards a homosexual identity during and after the Second World War. Charting his progress from an isolated childhood through adolescence to manhood, it details his inner life and preoccupation with death