Cherries

by Osamu Dazai · 1948

A writer who jokes constantly at home to hide his misery sits through a noisy summer supper with his three small children and a wife who murmurs that between her breasts lies a valley of tears. After a cold quarrel he flees to a bar, where a dish of cherries arrives and he spits out the stones, repeating that parents matter more than children.

Books mentioned in Cherries (1)

• Yanagidaru: “At the crowded supper the father wipes his face with a towel and mutters, "The Yanagidaru said that working up a great sweat while eating is vulgar, but with the children this noisy, even the most refined of fathers is dripping with sweat." [auto-translated]”