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Novel Grand Award のべるたいしょう

Edition 26 (1995, held 2 times in year)

Novel

Winners

4 people
遠田緩 grand prize

Miho! is a work of fiction by Kan Toda. The available public award records confirm its title and author, but no synopsis describing the story has been found.

Miho!, by Kan Toda.

34 pages
Japanese fictiondebut workpublic record
森田尚 honorable mention
148 pages
吉田緑 honorable mention
浩祥まきこ readers grand prize

In the title story, Ryuko calls an enigmatic boy she meets in a winter library a ‘rubber human,’ and he follows her home, drawing her into an uncanny turn in everyday life. The volume collects the title story and one other piece.

A boy met in a winter library follows Ryuko home.

224 pages
uncanny encounterlibraryeveryday transformationyoung adult fiction