Mishima Yukio Award みしまゆきおしょう
Edition 34 (2021)
FictionCriticismPoetryPlays
Winners
1 peopleA girl about to enter junior high school and her novelist uncle walk along the Tone River, learning through travel, writing, and kicking a ball. Set during spring break in the pandemic era, the story follows how their relationship slowly loosens and changes through movement.
Walking, writing, kicking: a spring break journey becomes practice for the two of them.
178 pages
travelgirlhooduncle and niecesoccercreationgrowth