Shibata Renzaburo Award しばたれんざぶろうしょう
Edition 32 (2019)
NovelContemporary fictionHistorical fictionEntertainment fiction
Winners
1 peopleA socially engaged novel by Himeno Kaoruko. Using a real-world incident as its basis, it depicts education-based hierarchy, gender, class, and the structures of harm and bystanding by crossing the backgrounds of victim and perpetrators.
The novel turns unconscious superiority and discrimination surrounding an incident back toward the reader.
473 pages
social novelgendereducational hierarchysexual violencecontemporary Japan