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Hardboiled & Hard Luck Condition:Good Green looks at what drivesHardboiled opens as the narrator, a woman in her thirties, treks high above her secluded mountain hotel. As so often in Yoshimoto's supremely atmospheric stories, it is memory that forms the backdrop against which the present unfolds. In this case, it is the memory of an old lover the only woman she ever had intimate relations with who died a year to the day previously. What unfolds is a night of intimation and blurred memory, disturbing signs and