Shincho Newcomer Award しんちょうしんじんしょう
Edition 9 (1977)
Pure literatureFiction
Winners
1 peopleA 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