Akira Nagumo

Three years ago, a gifted hand surgeon stopped operating. Now he works in an outpatient clinic, treating pain that will not heal - pain that leaves no trace on X-rays, MRI, or blood tests. He has learned that not all wounds can be seen, and not all pain belongs neatly on the map of the body. Then Sawaki appears: a quiet man with severe pain in his right forearm. Every examination is normal. There is no injury, no inflammation, no nerve damage.
And yet the pain remains. As the doctor listens to Sawaki's story, the pain begins to reveal a shape. Not the shape of a disease, but the shape of a motion: to grip, to fail to hold, and to let go. What connects Sawaki's wounded arm to the doctor's sleepless rainy nights?What does the body remember when the mind has buried the truth?The Locus of Pain is a quiet, haunting literary medical novel about guilt, memory, chronic pain, and the invisible wounds that shape a life.