The North Light by Hideo Yokoyama

A meticulous architect becomes obsessed when a client abruptly rejects the dream house he’s designed and vanishes, leaving behind an empty room with a single chair bathed in steady northern light. Following faint clues from the city to Japan’s snowbound north, his search for the missing man entwines with reckonings over his own estranged marriage and compromised ideals. As professional curiosity turns into a personal quest, he confronts how memory, place, and the quality of light shape the difference between a beautiful structure and a true home.

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