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Kawabata Yasunari Literary Award かわばたやすなりぶんがくしょう

Edition 2 (1975)

Short story

Winners

1 people
Tatsuo Nagai ながい たつお award

Aki is a short story by Tatsuo Nagai, written in a restrained style that evokes late-life feeling and seasonal change. As an early Kawabata Yasunari Literary Award winner, it was valued for the condensed quietness of short fiction.

A short story that places the deepening of human time within the season of autumn.

315 pages
short fictionagingseasonmemory