Title: Should not be interpreted literally
Product review: As I sit down to write this review I think to myself; how as a women do I comment objectively on a story whose plot revolves around the desire of a ninety year old man to procure himself a 14 year old virgin so he may deflower her? It should be added that the girl doesn't just fall into his lap so to speak, she is unwillingly offered up to him for a price by the village madam. If I think of this novella strictly in those terms the premise simply becomes too perverse as to taint any objectivity I may have. If I think of it more along the lines of an unrequited longing for the beauty and innocence of youth, coupled with a bittersweet look back on a rather unfullfilled life, I fare far better. Still, not even remotely close to his other works in my opinion.
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