Murasaki Shikibu Literary Award むらさきしきぶんがくしょう
Edition 31 (2021)
Winners
1 peopleA collection of stories in which an elderly narrator, raised by a caregiver in relatives' home after a family disruption, traces childhood memories through objects such as miniature toys. Its seventeen pieces are arranged like a suite, using an unconventional horizontal style to explore time and the changing shape of memory.
A seventeen-part suite that follows time, altered by forgetting, through objects remembered from childhood.
200 pages
memoryforgettingchildhoodtimeexperimental prose