銀河鉄道の夜
By 宮沢賢治
Cover: Railway Station (19th century), woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige III (1843–1894) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1894)
On the night of the Centaurus Festival a lonely schoolboy named Giovanni finds himself on a train that runs along the Milky Way beside his friend Campanella, among stars, strange passengers and the souls of the lost. Left unfinished at Miyazawa Kenji's death in 1933, it is one of the most loved Japanese stories of childhood, grief and the search for happiness.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.