Murasaki Shikibu Literary Award むらさきしきぶんがくしょう
Edition 27 (2017)
Winners
1 peopleA short-story collection by Kikuko Tsumura. In the title story, the strange premise of a floating spirit heading to Brazil becomes a way to portray movement, work, solitude, and everyday distance with humor and melancholy. The collection keeps a tangible sense of reality while showing a world slightly askew.
A viewpoint slightly adrift from everyday life illuminates the shapes of work and living.
180 pages
short storiesworksolitudehumorcrossing borders