Football of 1860

Released in 1967, "Football of 1860" instantly became a national bestseller: within a year it went through 11 reprints and then earned its creator the prestigious Jun'ichiro Tanizaki Prize. The novel tells the story of two brothers who, by the will of fate, return to their native village in search of the true meaning of life and their own "self." And while one tries to cope with the misfortunes that have befallen him: a friend has died, his wife is slowly drinking herself to death, and the child had to be placed in a hospital, the other organizes a football team with the aim of uniting the villagers and staging a rebellion, inspired by the uprising that occurred in these parts in 1860…