Shincho Newcomer Award しんちょうしんじんしょう
Edition 22 (1990)
Pure literatureFiction
Winners
2 peopleSet in Okinawa, this story follows an arranged marriage involving a woman in debt and a young man with intellectual disabilities, while drawing out family feeling and social scrutiny. Its restrained narration holds urgency and warmth together.
As she hesitates and faces the other family, the woman gradually encounters an unexpected kindness.
705 pages
Okinawafamilymarriagesocial gazehuman kindness