The waters have embraced me to my soul...

Released in 1973, the parable-dystopia “The waters have embraced me to my soul...”, the title of which is borrowed from the biblical Book of the prophet Jonah, is considered the main work of the Nobel laureate in literature Kenzaburo Oe. One fine day, Ooki Isana, the personal secretary of a famous politician, decides to become a hermit. Declaring himself the trustee of trees and whales – his most beloved creations in the world – he takes his five-year-old son away from his wife and settles in a private bomb shelter on the slope of a hill…