A mega-bestseller with over 2 million copies sold! Robert Kincaid, a photographer visiting the rural Iowa countryside to photograph the covered bridges, meets Francesca, a farmer's housewife. Four days for a wandering man and a settled woman. A miraculous love achieved, bound by time, yet transcending it. The Japanese edition, published in 1993, gradually spread a wave of emotion, and was praised as "simple and pure" and "impossible to read without tears," becoming an immortal bestseller. In 1995, the film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep was released.