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Kiyama Shohei Literary Award きやましょうへいぶんがくしょう

Edition 9 (2005)

Pure literature

Winners

1 people
Toshiki Matsuura まつうら としき award

A triptych of stories: a bar named after a flower said to grow at the entrance to the underworld, a man unable to leave the subway with a cooler of flounder, and an obsession with touching the hollow behind a sister’s knee. The tales interweave with an uncanny sense of wandering between life and death.

Iris, flounder, and the hollow behind the knee resonate uncannily at the border of life and death.

247 pages
border of life and deaththree interwoven storiesobsessionbodily sensation