This autobiographical novel deals with the disintegration of two provincial families, the Koizumis and the Hashimotos.

Originally well respected, the families find themselves slipping down the social ladder as their eldest sons, Koizumi Minoru and Hashimoyo Tatsuo, take on disastrous financial projects.

The character Sankichi is the youngest son of the Koizumi family, a writer, and an alter ego for the author himself.

The Family was published in an English translation provided by Cecilia Segawa Seigle in 1976.

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