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Ayukawa Tetsuya Award あゆかわてつやしょう

Edition 34 (2024)

Newcomer Literary AwardFull-length Mystery Novel

Winners

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山口未桜 やまぐち みお award

Emergency physician Satoru Aiba is confronted with an unidentified drowning victim who looks exactly like him. As he investigates, he uncovers a forbidden experiment from the early days of in vitro fertilization and a hidden truth about his own origins. A winner of the 35th Ayukawa Tetsuya Award, this medical mystery probes bioethics and the bonds of family.

A body with the same face as mine was pulled from the river.

318 pages
bioethicshidden originsmedical mysteryfamily bondsIVF