Shoes for You - Yoko Ogawa

Mr. Deshimaru has turned an old dormitory for young girls into a laboratory, and works there as an embalmer: preparing and preserving "specimens". As for the narrator of the story, she works as his assistant and receptionist, who receives from clients strange things from their lives that they brought to the mysterious specialist: bird bones, tiny mushrooms, a melody, a scar... The same young assistant had been in an accident at her previous job; Slowly, she falls under the spell of her employer, and enters this dangerous corridor of memory.

Number of pages: 96