Noma Literary Newcomer Award のまぶんげいしんじんしょう
Edition 32 (2010)
Pure literatureNovels
Winners
2 peopleUuushitan is an experimental novel by Toh EnJoe. Narration, annotation, and digression intertwine to create an intellectual maze around a story that may not exist, unsettling the act of reading itself.
At the border of whether a story exists at all, the act of reading is put to the test.
144 pages
experimental fictionannotationfictionalitylanguagemaze
Netemo Sametemo is a novel in which memories of love and present life waver around two men with the same face. Feelings for someone who cannot be forgotten overlap with a relationship in the present, creating a quiet tension.
Between two men with the same face, memory and the present continue to waver.
269 pages
lovememorydoubledaily lifechoice