Price: ¥1100 Completed reading I was able to finish reading it in beautiful condition. Author: Natsuo Kirino [Winner of the 64th Mainichi Art Award] [Winner of the 57th Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Award] This body is the last instrument of civilization. 29 years old, female, single, from the provinces, non-regular worker. She offered her womb, freedom, and dignity to a stranger, and became a "surrogate mother" in Tokyo. She had nothing to lose. Riki, a 29-year-old woman, quits her caregiving job in Hokkaido and takes a job as a hospital clerk in Tokyo, a city she admires, but struggles due to her non-regular employment. She is recommended by her colleague Teru to donate her eggs, which would be "a good side income." Hesitantly, she goes to the Japanese branch of the American reproductive medicine clinic "Plante," where she is offered "surrogate motherhood," which is not recognized in Japan... 25 years after "OUT," a prophetic dystopia by an author who continues to capture the plight and anger of women.