Noma Literary Newcomer Award のまぶんげいしんじんしょう
Edition 28 (2006)
Pure literatureNovels
Winners
1 peopleA short-story collection by Masaya Nakahara. Through doubt toward storytelling, emptiness, violent humor, and noise-like narration, it destabilizes the form of contemporary fiction. It also includes the Akutagawa Prize finalist “Tenmetsu……”.
Like lights blinking without reaching anyone, it illuminates both fiction’s possibilities and its voids.
256 pages
short storiesexperimental fictionemptinessviolent humor