Noma Literary Newcomer Award のまぶんげいしんじんしょう
Edition 46 (2024)
Pure literatureNovels
Winners
1 peopleChichi nu Haiya, Unma nu Hai follows Okinawa's wartime and postwar history through the voices of fourteen people from different times and positions. With the rhythms of Okinawan language and the saying that life is precious as its guide, it traces voices from a place layered with violence, memory, and time.
Okinawan language and fourteen voices excavate layers of memory spanning the war.
160 pages
Battle of Okinawapostwar historyOkinawan languagememorylife is precious