FTP, name this work by Kenzaburo Oe.
The central character of this story is upset when he makes a footprint in wet cement at an amusement park. He asks the narrator to deliver a message to his movie star former girlfriend, which explains that, though he's recently divorced, "it's only natural that he won't be seeing you again" since "he isn't living in present time anymore." It opens with that narrator revealing that he's nearly blind in one eye after some children inexplicably threw stones at him, though at the end he describes his blindness as a "gratuitous sacrifice." It leads him to remember the central story about the composer D, who dies on Christmas Eve in an apparent attempt to save his son from a truck, though he may have planned suicide all along. This third story in Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness revolves around the ►title brain-damaged child who is killed and appears floating in a white nightgown as the title ghost. FTP, name this work by Kenzaburo Oe.
The central character of this story is upset when he makes a footprint in wet cement at an amusement park.
{Aghwee the Sky Monster}