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Shincho Newcomer Award しんちょうしんじんしょう

Edition 9 (1977)

Pure literatureFiction

Winners

1 people
Shuzo Takagi たかぎ しゅうぞう award

A novel set in a village isolated from the outside world, where old traditions and customs remain. Through a festival in which the village children gather kaya nuts in the forest, their rank within the community is determined by how many they collect.

A festival of gathering kaya nuts shapes the order of an enclosed village and the fate of its children.

193 pages
Village customsFestival and communityHierarchyFolkloric world