The wind went up

A story of love and loss and an attempt to seek happiness and hold on to hope. Despite his lover's illness and death, the protagonist insists on staying in her bed and reviving hope in her even in the worst of circumstances, echoing a poem by Paul Valéry: "The wind is up, let's try to live." This novel inspired the famous anime director Hayao Miyazaki to date, his last film to date, which is titl...