Mishima Yukio Award みしまゆきおしょう
Edition 36 (2023)
FictionCriticismPoetryPlays
Winners
1 peopleThrough the eyes of a daughter who keeps visiting her mother after she falls into a vegetative state, the novel quietly explores caregiving, growth, and the boundary between life and death. Bodily memory and family distance emerge with unusual force from its restrained prose.
The story of a mother and daughter begins in the space that life and death do not cleanly divide.
184 pages
mother and daughtervegetative statecaregivinglife and deathcoming of age