Dazai Osamu Award だざいおさむしょう
Edition 20 (2004)
Literary fictionNew writer award
Winners
1 peopleA student at an art college makes a class project about the disused railway in his hometown. Memories of a girl killed by a train in childhood, photographs and tea gatherings, and his encounter with Raina, who has lost the tip of her index finger, intertwine as a hidden event from the past comes to light.
As a student begins work based on a disused railway, memories of his hometown and a past connected to fingers converge before him.
208 pages
memoryhometownart collegethe bodyphotographythe past