Akutagawa Prize あくたがわりゅうのすけしょう
Edition 138 (2007, held 2 times in year)
Pure literatureNew talent awardShort story / Medium-length story
Winners
1 people
Mieko Kawakami
award
A novella set over three days with a sister seeking breast augmentation and her silent daughter. A torrent of bodily sensation and Osaka dialect gives shape to female bodies, mother-daughter tension, and inarticulate anxiety.
A novella set over three days with a sister seeking breast augmentation and her silent daughter.
138 pages
the bodymother and daughterOsaka dialectwomen’s lives