Yasuoka Shotaro. 
 
Columbia University Press: 1984. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Black boards with very minor soiling to the top edge of the text block. Unclipped jacket has a crease to the top portion of the back cover and a closed tear to the top edge of the back cover. 196 pages.Book is near fine, jacket is very good.  
 
View follows a young man as he accompanies the father he hardly knows to a mental institution housing his dying mother. The Japanese form of "I-novel" was disguised and perfected in Shotaro's post-WW2 fiction.  Along with the novella, you get five additional short stories showcasing the troubled and talented writer. 
 
"The taxi cautiously descended the steep, winding road down the mountain face. A light was already on in the ward entrance. The sea, calm as a lake, yawned out from the edge of the parking lot, and though touches of fading sunlight remained here and there, it was already past lights-out for the patients, who had all gone inside."