Kyushu Arts Festival Literary Award きゅうしゅうげいじゅつさいぶんがくしょう
Edition 27 (1996)
Newcomer Award
Winners
1 peopleA man's right foot swells and begins to overflow with water, drawing unidentified nightly visitors. Interweaving past and present among people who carry memories of the Battle of Okinawa, the story portrays wounds left in the land and pain that resists speech.
Someone comes night after night to drink the water that spills from his right foot.
181 pages
the Battle of Okinawamemories of warOkinawabodily painhistorical woundsland and memory