Guerrilla Gardener

It is a prize-winning contemporary Japanese short story translated into English by author himself.
The story of the summer to begin from one enigmatic text message runs at full speed. The lead character who quitted a college, and been back in home town gloomily was attracted to one woman and her behavior. The author gave a full-length portrait of the figure who found the meaning of the life, and began to walk again. The motif of the story is an illegal activity called "guerrilla gardening" which means planting flowers and sowing seeds on the land of strangers secretly. It maximizes the effect of story-telling and metaphor wonderfully.
How to describe parents who have given up the future and police officers to sneer at guerrilla gardening saying "recently anything is ecological; all everyone talks about is eco. and eco. ..." have a ring of truth, and the light conversation with the woman is fun. A farewell letter to a lover is excellent and irradiates the inside of the chief character and is very convincing. While the chief character hangs around with the woman, the psychological description having a divination of his departure is vivid, and draws a reader into the story steadily. "Guerrilla Gardener" is the most popular short story of the author’s works.