Shibata Renzaburo Award しばたれんざぶろうしょう
Edition 22 (2009)
NovelContemporary fictionHistorical fictionEntertainment fiction
Winners
2 peopleA long novel in two volumes about unemployed men entering the business of a new religion and crossing the border between faith and fabrication.
A fiction disguised as faith becomes real as it draws in human weakness.
623 pages
religionsocial novelnew religious movementfabrication
A novel about screenwriter Natsu Takato leaving her controlling marriage and trying to reclaim desire, creativity, work, and bodily freedom.
The feeling that she has not yet met her true self drives Natsu toward the outside world.
496 pages
love novelfemale autonomycreative workmarriage