Keitaro, a restless graduate hunting for work and adventure, is sent by a retired official to shadow a stranger outside a tram stop, a job that goes nowhere. Around him the story turns to his friend Sunaga, whose inward, hesitant relationship with his cousin Chiyoko is told in a series of confessions.
Books mentioned in To the Spring Equinox and Beyond (1)
New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson: “This leaning in Keitaro seemed to have begun in his high-school days, when his English teacher had the class read Stevenson's New Arabian Nights as a textbook. Until then he had hated English, but once he started on this book he never skipped the preparation. [auto-translated]”