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Izumi Kyoka Literary Award いずみきょうかぶんがくしょう

Edition 32 (2004)

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Winners

1 people
Yōko Ogawa おがわ ようこ award

A novel about the brief time shared by a man working at a facility and a mysterious creature called Brahman. Through contact with an almost unnameable being, loss and tenderness quietly emerge.

An indefinable creature gently touches the narrator's solitude.

146 pages
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