Kodansha Essay Award こうだんしゃエッセイしょう
Edition 33 (2017)
Winners
2 peopleIn this essay collection, Kyoko Koizumi moves between Harajuku and her own memories, writing about family, love, cats, people she has met, life, and death. Beyond her years as an idol, the book quietly reveals a personal history layered onto a changing neighborhood.
Beginning from a yellow apartment building in Harajuku, the memories of a neighborhood intersect with Koizumi's own time.
This essay collection captures small unease and odd dislocations hidden in everyday life through Hiroshi Homura's sharp eye and dry humor. Children, dogs, family habits, and other people's household rules become moments when ordinary life suddenly looks strange.
The familiar everyday world turns uncanny the moment it is viewed from a slightly different angle.